The Pope Benedict XVI wanted to be a librarian and had around 20.000 books in his personal library!
In 1997, when he turned 70, Ratzinger asked Pope John Paul II for permission to leave the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith and to become an archivist in the Vatican Secret Archives and a librarian in the Vatican Library, but the Pope refused such permission.
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