The Central University of Venezuela (UCV) is preparing to actively participate in the events of canonization of Dr. José Gregorio Hernández and the nun Carmen Teresa Rendiles.
The event, which will take place on October 25 at the Simón Bolívar Monumental Stadium, will have the support of a university volunteer group made up of more than 300 students.
The initiative, called Ucevistas Volunteering, was presented this Tuesday by the Academic Vice-Rector, María Fátima Garcés, who highlighted the leading role that the university community will have in this historic day.
Accompanied by representatives of the teaching staff, student leaders of the Federation of University Centers (FCU) and young volunteers, Garcés underlined the symbolic value of this commitment: “We want our students, who are the heart and soul of the UCV, but also of Venezuela, to understand the responsibility they have in their hands, just as José Gregorio did when he was young.”
The liturgical act will be coordinated by the Archdiocese of Caracaswith the logistical support of four universities: the UCV, the Andrés Bello Catholic University, the Metropolitan University and the Santa Rosa de Lima Catholic University. Each institution will provide volunteers to guarantee order and attention during the religious ceremony.
The UCV will not send representatives to the ceremony in Rome
At the UCV Institute of Immunology, Garcés also reported on the invitation to attend the ceremony in Rome, on October 19. However, he explained that the university will not be able to send representatives due to budgetary and planning constraints.
“For Rome there are representatives from several universities, we at the university, both the Rector Victor Rago“Like myself, we received the invitation from the Archdiocese, but we are starting this new school year and it has been very complicated to schedule to be able to go to Rome,” he expressed.
Garcés explained that the Ucevista volunteers are made up of students from 11 faculties that make up the university, including regional headquarters such as Maracay, Barquisimeto, Puerto Ayacucho, Bolívar, Amazonas and Barcelona.
“This volunteering has 317 registered students, who are from the Faculty of Medicine, 93 students; from the FCJP, 34 students; FaCES, 27 students; from Humanities, 13; from Architecture, 21; from Dentistry, 29; from Science, 16; from Pharmacy, 24; from Engineering, 31; from Agronomy, 21, and from Veterinary Medicine, 28,” he specified.
