Beato José Gregorio Hernandezcisneros

Día de Fiesta

26 October; initially 29 June, but changed so as to not conflict with the solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul celebrated on that day

Nacimiento

26 October 1864 in Isnotú, Trujillo, Venezuela

Fallecimiento

Hit by a car on 29 June 1919 in Caracas, Venezuela while delivering medications he had purchased for an elderly patient; relics enshrined in the church of Our Lady of Candelaria in Caracas

Beatificado

30 April 2021 by Pope Francis; beatification celebrated at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, Apostolic Nuncio Aldo Giordano presiding; his beatification miracle involved the healing of Yaxury Solorzano, a 10 year old girl in the diocese of San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela who had been shot in the head with a shotgun during an armed robbery on 10 March 2017; she was badly injured, with pellets in her brain; because there was delay in obtaining a neurosurgeon, her mother began to pray for the intercession of then Venerable José Gregorio; the girl improved, surgery was cancelled and she was released a few days later in good health

Venerado

16 January 1986 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)