Symbolism of resignation date    It should be noted that Joseph Ratzinger exconscript in Adolf Hitler Youth announced its resignation as Pope Benedict XVI on february th  Benedict of Aniane and Adolf of Osnabrck feast dayCaholic online February fest days httpwwwcatholicorgsaintsfdayfebphp Maybe this shoud be added in hid biography    WPSYNTH    Close but theres no conclusion Not combining sources just listing two Just out of curiousity NummerSechs why should this be noted Is there anything beyond it just being a sort of weird coincidence    April   UTC Please READ WPSYNTH which says Do not combine material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources If one reliable source says A and another reliable source says B do not join A and B together to imply a conclusion C that is not mentioned by either of the sources Emphasis is mine    I get that But whats the implication He announced his resignation on February  and February  was the feast day of saints with looselyrelated names therefore    April   UTC Since I do not agree at all with InedibleHulk  Eliziums comments I put also this discussion on their talk page Everything a Pope does speaks writes acts etc is think well in advance on a very symbolic basis Denying that without arguments better than a lawyer point of view means a complete ignorance about the essence of Popes role in catholic world  over other Christian churches BTW Im French not Anglosaxon learned german at school J Ratzinger is German and I do believe that I have quite an authority to write that since France is recognized Romes first daughter    we can just say that it happens to be the same day as those feasts and let the readers draw their own conclusions otherwise it is WPsynth I do know German quite well I have taken  years of German classes one year has been collegelevel       It should be noted that February the th Catholic Church also celebrates Notre Dame de Lourdes aka Our Lady of Lourdes southwest of France Another non related  coincidence  FranoisBernard Michel who copresides the Lourdes Medical BureauComit Mdical International de Lourdes in french httpfrlourdesfranceorgapprofondirguerisonsetmiraclescompositioncomitemedicalinternationallourdes presides also the French National Academy of Medicine for the year  He is also member of the Acadmie des BeauxArts he presided twice at Institut de France chair XIII created in     Very good  Before rushing in with this sort of thing people should know that superficial similarities spawn spurious statements and capricious coincidences cause careless conjectures        This is neither A logical B notable or C in the sources It is like putting a prediction by Nostradamus and the Aztec calendar together to get a result Please KEEP THIS OFF THE ARTICLE