Benedict, together with the visiting Armenian Apostolic Church Catholicos Aram I, joined hundreds of people gathered in the Paul VI Hall, inside Vatican City, for the ceremony.
An elderly sannyasin says:...I was never really a child when I was one, but these last few days, I often feel like a little child... and I want to tease everybody.
His last expedition (1888) was for the relief of Mehmed Emin Pasha, who had been cut off by the Mahdist revolt in the Sudan;he escorted Emin and 1,500 others to the eastern coast.