Doctor, tailor, dancer, monk? Meet José Gregorio Hernández, Venezuela’s first saint
The definitive history of an extraordinary man
The Vatican announced on Tuesday the canonization of Blessed José Gregorio Hernández. The man known as “the doctor of the poor” is now set to become the first Venezuelan saint.
There are three names nearly everyone reveres in Venezuela: Simón Bolivar, who led the country’s independence in the early 19th-century, baseball great Miguel Cabrera, and José Gr…