Pope's parents 'met through personal ad'

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43-year-old Joseph Ratzinger senior placed an advertisement as a “low-level civil servant” seeking “a good Catholic girl, who can cook and sew a bit … to marry as soon as possible, preferably with a picture,” in a Bavarian paper in March 1920.

Four months later - by now a “mid-ranking civil servant” - he posted a similar notice in the same paper, and this time received a reply from Maria Peintner, the Pope’s future mother, the paper reported, citing documents from Bavarian state archives.

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What a monumental return for a few cent advertisement…our Pope Benedict :rotfl:
 
I like the part of the ad where the popes father said. a personal fortune is desired but not essentual…( thats not a exact qoute but its the jist of it)
 
I think that’s kinda sweet. Weird, but sweet. Everything about HH is so very German, in a good way–the philosophical, mystical, homey kind of German. His only bad German characteristic I can think of is that he is just a bit pedantic, style wise. But then again, it does make him a lot clearer than JP2 was; that man was a poet, not a teacher, and I think it was a weakness in him.
 
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