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On February 1, the newly appointed Rector Konrad Bestle (diocese of Augsburg in Bavaria), who until now was Curate at the Anima (and thus also took care of the free semesters and the German School), begins his office. He succeeds Rector Prelate Dr. Hans-Peter Fischer (Freiburg i.Br.), who held this office for twelve years. Fischer had been discharged on December 8 with a ceremony on the part of the Bishops' Conference and the Archconfraternity as well as on the part of the Görres Society.

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On Friday 10 February, Cardinal Kurt Koch will celebrate a Requiem in memoriam of Pope Benedict XVI at the Campo Santo Teutonico at 6 pm.

The Vatican Magazine has dedicated the February issue to Pope Benedict XVI, in which the personality Ratzinger and the Pope are honoured with knowledge and sympathy. This richly illustrated issue is worth ordering! 

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Canon lawyer Dr Matthias Ambros, who has been a member of the RIGG since 2016, comes from the diocese of Passau (Bishop Oster). He has been appointed Second Ecclesiastical Advocate (Promotor iustitiae substitutus) at the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature of the Roman Curia. Among other things, he stands up for the rights of those who see themselves treated unjustly by the ecclesiastical administrative jurisdiction. Ambros was first at Campo Santo Teutonico in 2004/05 as a sabbatical student and at that time witnessed Joseph Ratzinger's election as Pope and his proclamation as Benedict XVI in St Peter's Square.

Ambros in the library of the german college

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Transfer of the body to S. Peter

The tireless and humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord, one of the greatest German intellectual figures and philanthropists of our epoch, Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI since April 19, 2005, passed away on the commemoration day of the holy pope Silvester. Thus the Roman Institute of the Görres Society loses its most prominent member and one of its most loyal supporters.

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The Historical Archive of the Gregorian University in Rome offers immense treasures on the history of Roman science, in which the Jesuits played a role one way or another. There is a blog in which interesting aspects and archival documents are pointed out again and again. Currently, the Father Leiber collection is being processed. As the right-hand man of Pius XII, the German Jesui Robert Leiber was a key figure in the day-to-day operations of the papal court. His legacy, however, is by no means immediately readable for everyone, as Leiber used to use a rapid script that needs to be deciphered.  

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