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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 of the first to introduce microscopes to his nation s hospitals was beatified April 30 in an austere ceremony held in Caracas, the city where he spent much of his life tending to the sick.
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José Gregorio Hernández was a Venezuelan doctor well-known for his faith. Pope Francis announced his beatification on June 19 in the midst of one of the most unstable periods in Venezuela’s history. Yet one quality of the so-called “doctor of the poor” is his ability to unite the country.
Cardinal Baltazar Porras traveled to Rome to plan for the much-anticipated event.
CARD. BALTAZAR PORRAS
Apostolic Administrator of Caracas
“We were just at the (Congregation for) Divine Worship presenting the texts for the Mass. We asked that the liturgical feast be on Oct. 26, which is his birthday, rather than the date of his death, which is what is usually done. We asked this since he died on June 29, which is the Solemnity of St. Peter and St. Paul.”
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