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Vatican City, Apr 30, 2013 \/ 08:30 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Benedict XVI will return to the Vatican on May 2 by helicopter, coming back the same way he left just two months ago when he resigned as Pope.<\/p>\n

\tThe return of a former Pope is something that has no historical precedent, making everything a new one for the Vatican\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n

\tFather Federico Lombardi, the director of the Vatican\u2019s press office, told CNA April 30 that \u201cthere will be someone there to welcome Benedict XVI\u201d but he is not yet sure who that will be.<\/p>\n

\tThe former Pope will arrive by helicopter around 4:30 or 5:00 in the afternoon, and after a brief greeting will head to the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, where he will live a life of prayer and meditation.<\/p>\n

\tSince he resigned from the papacy on Feb. 28, Benedict XVI has been living at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.<\/p>\n

\tBlessed John Paul II opened the cloistered monastery in May 1994 as a place dedicated solely to prayer for the Pope, his ministry and the cardinals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tIt contains a chapel, a choir room, a library, a semi-basement, a terrace and a visiting room.<\/p>\n

\tDifferent groups of nuns have lived in the monastery since it was created, rotating out every three years.<\/p>\n

\tBut when Benedict XVI announced Feb. 11 that he would abdicate the papacy, the building was empty.<\/p>\n

\tThe last group of religious to live in Mater Ecclesiae left in Nov. 2012 when the Vatican began renovations on the building to take replace old windows, fix a problem with humidity in the basement and make repairs to a rooftop terrace. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\tMater Ecclesiae will also be home to four consecrated women who have taken care of the papal household since Benedict became pontiff in 2005, and his personal secretary Archbishop Georg G\u00e4nswein, who is also the head of the Prefecture of the Papal Household.<\/p>\n

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