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Pope hopes Venezuelans beatification will help reconciliation Doctor of the poor Jose Gregorio Hernandez often helped sick patients without asking for payment Updated: April 30, 2021 05:19 AM GMT Trending A woman takes pictures with her cellphone of paintings with the image of Jose Gregorio Hernandez in the chapel of La Salle College High School in Caracas on April 28. (Photo: Yuri Cortez/AFP) Amid the suffering due to a devastating economic crisis and a global pandemic, the beatification of J...

Doctor of the poor beatified in Venezuela © EPA José Gregorio Hernández is revered in Venezuela as the "doctor of the poor" A Venezuelan doctor known for treating the poor during the Spanish flu pandemic a century ago has been beatified, a step toward sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. José Gregorio Hernández, who was born in 1864, is revered in the country as the "doctor of the poor". He died at the age of 54 in 1919, after being struck by a car in Caracas. The beatification comes ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Venezuelan doctor José Gregorio Hernández was beatified this Friday in Caracas in a reduced ceremony, according to the security measures required by the pandemic, attended by only 150 people. In a ceremony led by the Apostolic Nuncio in Venezuela, Aldo Giordano, and in the presence of the ecclesiastical authorities, "the doctor of the poor" became the first blessed of the Caribbean country, where it is hoped that he will soon be canonized, for which the veracity o...

A painting of José Gregorio Hernández is displayed by the main door at the Church of Colegio La Salle in Caracas, Venezuela, April 28, 2021, during preparations for his April 30 beatification. Hernández was a Venezuelan doctor known for treating hundreds of poor patients for free and who died in 1919. (CNS photo/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria, Reuters) Apr. 30, 2021 Catholic News Service BOGOTÁ, Colombia – A Venezuelan doctor who treated patients during the Spanish flu pandemic and was one...

BBC News Published image captionJosé Gregorio Hernández is revered in Venezuela as the "doctor of the poor" A Venezuelan doctor known for treating the poor during the Spanish flu pandemic a century ago has been beatified, a step toward sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. José Gregorio Hernández, who was born in 1864, is revered in the country as the "doctor of the poor". He died at the age of 54 in 1919, after being struck by a car in Caracas. The beatification comes after the Church at...

People gather outside of the church in Caracas, Venezuela, where the remains of Jose Gregorio Hernandez Cisneros rest, Oct. 26, 2020. Hernandez, a Venezuelan doctor known for treating hundreds of poor patients for free and who died in 1919, was beautified in Caracas April 30. (CNS/Reuters/Fausto Torrealba) Amid the suffering due to a devastating economic crisis and a global pandemic, the beatification of José Gregorio Hernández, affectionately known as the "doctor of the poo...

  Florida has reported 5,306 new coronavirus cases today for a total of 2,233,518 cases.    According to data collected by Johns Hopkins and analyzed by NPR, the average number of daily coronavirus cases this week is around 5,311 new cases a day.    That’s a 13 percent decrease from last week’s daily caseload and a 15 percent decrease from the daily numbers two weeks ago.    The state has added 77 new coronavirus-related deaths for a total death toll of...

April 30, 2021 CWN Editors Note: Pope Francis has issued a video message for the beatification of José Gregorio Hernández (1864-1919), a physician and Third Order Franciscan. The Pontiff named the new blessed the co-patron of the Peace Sciences Study Cycle at the Pontifical Lateran University. The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.   Sound Off! CatholicCulture.org supporters weigh in. All comments are modera...

Last Updated: Popes Envoy Cancels Trip To Venezuela Due To Coronavirus Popes envoy cancels trip to Venezuela due to coronavirus LENGTH: 01:38 SHOTLIST: 2. Various of paintings by José Gregorio Hernandez at entrance of church 3. Various of Vice Postulator of the Cause of Beatification Jose Gregorio Hernandez Monsignor Tulio Ramirez (centre), General Coordinator of the National Commission for the Beatification of José Gregorio Hernández Albe Perez (left, in black top), VALE TV director (V...

Francis urge Venezuelans to use beatification as moment of reconciliation Apr 29, 2021 rome bureau chief In this file photo, Pope Francis speaks from the Vatican in this image taken from a video message to young people of the Archdiocese of Krakow, Poland, commemorating the 100th anniversary of St. John Pauls birth. (Credit: CNS photo/Holy See Press Office.) Pope Francis says he hopes the beatification of Venezuelan doctor José Gregorio Hernández will be a moment of unity for the troubled co...