The Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva, called Francis "the Pope of the Poor" in a Mass held in his honour, and that's how residents recall him. They live in humble houses with tin roofs, unplastered walls and bare cement floors.

Dozens of people gathered at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires to pray and pay homage to Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, the “Pope of the poor,” as the Archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge García Cuerva,