The 88-year-old pontiff had emerged from his convalescence after suffering pneumonia just a day before on Easter Sunday to bless the thousands of people in St Peter’s Square in Vatican City.
Pope Francis tours St Peter’s Square in his popemobile after bestowing the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sunday (Andrew Medichini/AP)
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as a teenager in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Bergoglio family photo via AP)
The Pope with a group of Syrian refugees who arrived in Italy with the pontiff’s charter plane after his visit to the Greek island of Lesbos in 2016 (Filippo Monteforte/Pool Photo via AP)
During his papacy, Francis spoke out passionately on the plight of migrants fleeing war and poverty, the pressing need to protect the environment and tackle climate change, and what he saw as the iniquities of unfettered capitalism.
An Amazonian indigenous girl gives Pope Francis a plant during the offertory of a mass in 2019 Alessandra Tarantino/AP)
The Pope prays near the US-Mexico border fence along the Rio Grande, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in 2016 (Gregorio Borgia/AP)
Francis dons a headdress gifted to him during a visit with Indigenous peoples at Maskwaci in Alberta, Canada (Eric Gay/AP)
During a visit to East Timor, Francis was welcomed to Dili by young dancers (Gregorio Borgia/AP)
Seen as an outsider when he was chosen to succeed Benedict XVI, the Argentine was the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to lead the Roman Catholic Church.
Francis kisses a baby passed to him in St Peter’s Square (Andrew Medichini/AP)
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