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7d0b223 Before him, also, was the memory of how John Paul II had chosen to die in public; there was an almost carnivalesque atmosphere to those final dying days of which the austere reserved Bavarian disapproved. Paul Vallely
f8af2e5 Bergoglio himself has quoted lines the nineteenth-century German poet Friedrich Holderlin dedicated to his own grandmother; they end 'may the man not betray what he promised as a child'. Paul Vallely