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It is a gift that this image is not simply of two Popes standing together looking at the photographer but rather two pontiffs contemplating a window to Heaven, the ikon of the Madonna of Humility which had been given to Pope Francis by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church through Metropolitan Hilarion, Foreign Minister of the Russian Church.
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| Pope Francis I with the Pontiff Emeritus Benedict |
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