August 7, 2024

Venezuela’s ‘doctor of the poor’ beatified in austere ceremony

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Blessed José Gregorio Hernández led a pious life marked by science, faith and public service. He was a founding member of Venezuela’s academy of medicine and tried unsuccessfully to become a priest. Along with his colleagues, Blessed Hernández resisted a dictator’s plans to shut down a university in Venezuela at the turn of the 20th century, while introducing the study of pathological anatomy. Full Text -> CatholicNewsService

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