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image captionJosé Gregorio Hernández is revered in Venezuela as the doctor of the poor
A Venezuelan doctor known for treating the poor during the Spanish flu pandemic a century ago has been beatified, a step toward sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
José Gregorio Hernández, who was born in 1864, is revered in the country as the doctor of the poor .
He died at the age of 54 in 1919, after being struck by a car in Caracas.
The beatification comes after the Church attributed a miracle to him for saving the life of a young girl.
Yaxury Solórzano survived after being shot in the head during an attempted robbery in 2017. Doctors said that, if she survived, she would be permanently disabled.