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#378807 - 04/16/12 02:54 PM Happy 85th Birthday, Pope Benedict XVI (16 April 2012)
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Registered: 02/29/04
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Pope celebrates 85th birthday at Vatican(Washington Post)

Happy 85th Birthday, Your Holiness!

May God grant you many more happy, healthy and blessed years!

Mnohaja l'ita, Vladyko!

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#378815 - 04/16/12 06:29 PM Re: Happy 85th Birthday, Pope Benedict XVI (16 April 2012) [Re: Curious Joe]
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Eis polla eti Despota!

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#378826 - 04/16/12 10:56 PM Re: Happy 85th Birthday, Pope Benedict XVI (16 April 2012) [Re: Curious Joe]
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God grant him many happy years!
Ad multos annos.

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#378830 - 04/17/12 03:33 AM Re: Happy 85th Birthday, Pope Benedict XVI (16 April 2012) [Re: Curious Joe]
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I feel so bad for the guy, who said so many times how he only wanted to retire to write his books and play his piano. But I remember the day of his election. My wife saved the nearly hysterical voicemail I left her when I heard. My toddler at the time mispronounced his name "hope benedict". Hope indeed.

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#378831 - 04/17/12 04:53 AM Re: Happy 85th Birthday, Pope Benedict XVI (16 April 2012) [Re: Curious Joe]
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