The president and the pontiff held a private meeting for about an hour at the Council of State and Ministers, afte the Pope arrived in Havana and paid homage to the country's patron saint.
On Monday, there was a minor incident where a man was restrained and led away by security agents as the Pope celebrated a public Mass in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.
He will give a second open-air Mass today in Havana's vast Revolution Square before heading back to Rome.
Cuba is marking the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the Virgin figure, which was found floating in a bay in 1612 by three fishermen and is an important symbol for both the Roman Catholic Church and Santeria, the Afro-Cuban religion that is a legacy of Cuba's slavery era.
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