For the first time in its history, Venezuela will have two people officially declared saints. It will be Doctor Jos\u00e9 Gregorio Hern\u00e1ndez and the religious sister Carmen Rendiles. The canonization ceremony will take place on October 19 at the Vatican. The person who has overseen both processes before the Holy See, postulator Silvia Correale, is fully aware of the importance of this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SILVIA CORREALE In the case of Mother Carmen Rendiles, one of the certified miracles involved a young woman who was in a vegetative state. After a visit to the tomb of the future saint, the woman was healed completely with no medical explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The postulator for Mother Carmen Rendiles emphasizes her strength in facing a crisis in her religious order and leadership in founding a new one. As for Jos\u00e9 Gregorio Hern\u00e1ndez, after the first miracle was approved for his beatification, Pope Francis waived the requirement for a second miracle due to the overwhelming popular devotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SILVIA CORREALE These two canonization causes received strong support from the Vatican\u2019s Secretariat of State, particularly from Cardinal Parolin, who witnessed firsthand the immense devotion to these new saints during his time as nuncio in Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SILVIA CORREALE A large turnout of Venezuelans is expected in October, for a canonization that will be preceded by a prayer vigil at Rome\u2019s Cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trans. CRT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the first time in its history, Venezuela will have two people officially declared saints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":79147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qAfswNFZmAI","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcanonizacionjosegregoriohernandezeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcanonizacionjosegregoriohernandezint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79152,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79150\/revisions\/79152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Postulator before the Holy See
<\/strong>In the figures of these two, the whole Church is, in a way, represented. Because he is a layman, a man, and she is a religious sister, a woman. So sainthood is for men and for women, for laypeople and for those who are consecrated. That\u2019s the beauty of it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
SILVIA CORREALE
Postulator before the Holy See
<\/strong>A woman of great faith and deep prayer life, especially Eucharistic prayer, and she had the serenity to understand the difficulty of the moment and to walk forward together with her bishops, the Venezuelan bishops.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Postulator before the Holy See
<\/strong>Jos\u00e9 Gregorio is part of Venezuela\u2019s national identity. Everyone is devoted to Jos\u00e9 Gregorio. There isn\u2019t a single Venezuelan who doesn\u2019t know who he is because devotion to him is taught at home from a young age.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Postulator before the Holy See
<\/strong>We knew we had the support of Cardinal Parolin and of Monsignor Pe\u00f1a Parra. Whenever they could help, they encouraged us, supported us, and accompanied us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n