The crowd erupted in cheers of “Viva il Papa!” (Long live the pope) and “Bravo!” as Francis looped through the square in his open-topped popemobile.

Members of the Catholic Church's global community of 1.4bn people are remember the late Pope on Easter Monday.

Francis’ election as pope began an unprecedented era, as a retired pontiff lived side by side with a reigning one inside the Vatican gardens. The meeting, at Castro’s home, came after the pontiff delivered Cuba’s largest papal M ass ever, before an estimated 200,000 people in Havana’s Revolution Square.

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. Here are the key things to know about the death of the Argentine pontiff, history's first from Latin America, who presided over the Catholic Church for more than 12 years.