00:00The favors that Venezuelans are grateful to Jose Gregorio Hernández,
00:03numbering the hundreds of thousands throughout the country.
00:06For his devotees, they are simply miracles far beyond official recognition.
00:13Every flame burning here has a story of pain behind it, but also one of hope.
00:18They ask Jose Gregorio to intercede, to help them heal.
00:22He has been a popular saint for a long time.
00:25I have been through difficult times, I've been ill, and I will put in here.
00:30I will say to Jose Gregorio, help me, because I have more faith in him,
00:34a lot of faith, and no one is going to take that away from me.
00:39The miracle that led to his canonization left all the doctors who knew about his gaze baffled.
00:44As a child, Jack Suri survived a high-caliber shot to the head.
00:48Her chances of survival were slim, but a full recovery was impossible.
00:56If I didn't have this part without bones or anything, I would say that nothing happened to me,
01:03because in reality I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
01:06It has not influenced my life in any way.
01:08And although this is a miracle that the Vatican studied in detail,
01:14there are thousands of favors granted that the Venezuelan people are grateful for in every shrine,
01:20church, and also what one sees home in Caracas.
01:24It is moving to read and also to hear them.
01:27In 2007,
01:31I was in the intensive care unit with my brother,
01:38who had Down syndrome and cerebral paralysis.
01:42I was sleeping when a doctor walked in, wearing a little hat.
01:46That was the only thing I saw.
01:48When I woke up, it was because the machines started making a loud noise,
01:52and I started yelling at the nurses.
01:53We thought my brother was leaving us.
01:56He was completely stable.
01:58My brother died in 2017, 10 years later,
02:01and that day they had said my brother would not survive the night.
02:04Dilievi also thought she was going to die.
02:08A hidden run that threw her more than 40 meters destroyed her legs.
02:13She's a neighbor of La Candelaria and visits the church
02:15where the remains of Jose Gregor Hernandez rest to give thanks again and again.
02:20Unfortunately, it happened to me,
02:24but not because I didn't believe.
02:26I have always believed.
02:28The thing is precisely because I have always believed.
02:33But never in my life did I imagine
02:35that I would speak so strongly to Jose Gregor Hernandez
02:38and say,
02:39Save my leg, save my leg.
02:42I never imagined.
02:43Some of her effects remain, especially in her right leg.
02:49But Dilievi leads a normal life
02:51and has no doubt that Jose Gregorio interceded.
02:53Religion is not an invention.
02:58You have to believe.
02:59And you don't have to go through a difficult situation to believe.
03:02In fact, the displays of passion among the Venezuelan people
03:09reflects this devotion even in the farthest corners of the country.
03:14Look, he lives in us because he's the saint
03:17who was instilled in us from a very young age.
03:21And he's the saint to whom we return when we are in poor health.
03:25And we have seen with great joy, amazement and mercy
03:29all of his miracles.
03:30And they are grateful with the same devotion
03:34for filling the promises, especially in the sanctuaries,
03:38where more than 150 reliques displayed by the archdiocese have arrived.
03:43The Altagracia parish in Barquisimeto will soon be one of them.
03:50He lives in the daily life of that person
03:51who asks him for a favor
03:53without having declared him a saint.
03:57And now with even more devotionists in Valencia
04:00where the sanctuary displays the relique
04:02before the atonished gaze of its faithful.
04:06It is part of the body.
04:07In this case of the skeleton,
04:09as is the case here,
04:10a bone fragment of José Gregorio Hernández,
04:14the history of the saints is based on
04:16and grows precisely through the faith of the people.
04:19Therefore,
04:20these relics accompany the strength of our faith.
04:23Y que se expresa de las más diversas formas.
04:25And it is expressed in the most diverse ways,
04:28like this little boy from the town of La Grita, en Táxira.
04:31It is simply thrilling.
04:33José Gregorio Hernández,
04:35a paz y con su alma,
04:38a todo el que sufre y saluda al enfermo.
04:41Favores concedidos que no son otra cosa.
04:44Favores concedidos que no son otra cosa.
04:47Luisani Gómez, Freddy Suárez,
04:49Gustavo Flores y Paola Drágnik.
04:51Tele Sur, Isnotu.
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