Germans in Pope Benedict XVI's home town were given free beer to celebrate their newly famous son.

Hubert Gschwendtner, Mayor of Marktl am Inn where Joseph Ratzinger was born, said: "It's unbelievable, I'm overjoyed." Mayor Gschwendtner promised free beer to everyone in the town.

Hundreds of locals in the small Bavarian town also flocked to the house where the new Pope was born, firing salutary shots with blank bullets into the air.

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