| There was ceremonial fanfare and a high profile VIP guestlist, but it was the genuine love from the common people at Pope Francis’s funeral that would have pleased a man who valued the ordinary and marginalised, over the rich and powerful. As the sun shone down on a cool day in St Peter’s Square in Rome, 250,000 came out to farewell the ‘People’s Pope’, whose humility and humble approach arguably made him more popular than any pontiff before him. Some had slept on the streets to ensure they got a spot, others got up in the early hours and queued calmly. Once in the square, children could be heard singing hymns, others played cards, or napped on the shoulders of their neighbours.  | 
