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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
By Grinne N. Aodha

Giving reading at Benedict XVI funeral ‘an honour’, says Donegal woman

AP

An Irish woman who gave a reading at the funeral of the former pope Benedict XVI has said it was an honour.

Thousands of mourners gathered in St Peter’s Square in Vatican City on Thursday for the rare event of a requiem Mass for a dead pontiff, presided over by a living one, Pope Francis.

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