The executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, began the vigil for canonization of José Gregorio Hernández and Mother Carmen Rendiles which will be celebrated this Sunday in the Vatican, which he considered comes at a time of deep unity in the country.
“Holiness comes at an extraordinary moment for our country, at a moment of deep unity, where the miserable people who try to instrumentalize a sanctification process of so much sacrifice are completely excluded,” said Rodríguez from the outskirts of the La Candelaria Church, where Hernández’s remains rest.
Rodríguez urged Venezuelans to pray “so that the hands of the next saints will be placed on Venezuela “to heal it, to heal it, to protect it from any demon, from any threat,” he expressed.
«What Venezuela is experiencing is a historic moment and we feel that spirituality throughout the country, where fervent believers in the doctor’s miracles Jose Gregorio Hernandezof the miracles of the holy mother Carmen, are rejoicing in the happiness that means that Venezuela has two saints to venerate on the same day,” he added.
The vice president maintained that Venezuelans are in “permanent national union” and in prayer to “protect” the country from “any aggression, madness.”
“In the face of threats, our people are there with the word of God before them, asking for peace, asking for tranquility, for the future of our children,” he stressed.
It will be at four in the morning (Venezuelan time) this Sunday, October 19, the solemn mass will be held from the Vatican for the canonization of the first Venezuelan saints.
During the mass, the American pontiff, with Peruvian nationality, will ask with the traditional Latin formula that they be inscribed in the book of saints and their veneration can begin.
This Sunday, in addition to Hernández and Rendiles, they will be canonized by Pope Leo XIV Ignacio Choukrallah Maloyan, Armenian Catholic archbishop of Mardin (Türkiye); layman Peter To Rot, from Papua New Guinea; the Italian nuns Vincenza Maria Poloni and María Troncatti; and the Italian layman Bartolo Longo.
