H.Em. Card. Baltazar E. Porras Cardozo, Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela; José Manuel ‘Chema’ Colmenarez, NGO Clinic Director (Oidos, Nariz y Garganta), Barquisimeto, Venezuela; Chiara Locatelli, Neonatology Policlinico Sant’Orsola, Bologna; Franco Nembrini, Writer and Teacher. Moderator: Alejandro Marius, President of Trabajo y Persona, curator of the exhibition “The People’s Doctor. Life and work of José Gregorio Hernández”, Venezuela.

This event focuses on the possibility of peace and unity, taking as its inspiration the life, works and message of the Blessed José Gregorio Hernández: a Venezuelan doctor who lived between Latin America and Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century, and who spent his life for the poor and for peace building. Interest in and devotion to the figure of this doctor of the poor has grown exponentially in recent years in Venezuela and throughout Latin America. An inspirational model to look up to even today, at a time when war has made a powerful comeback in the heart of Europe and in so many other regions of the world.