ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 15, 2023 / 17:45 pm
With the authorization of Pope Francis, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints promulgated on Dec. 14 decrees relating to 11 causes for canonization, among them that of Guatemalan physician Ernesto Cofiño, declared Venerable for heroically living Christian virtues.
The prelate of Opus Dei, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, said in a statement: “We thank God for this happy news and we thank the Holy Father for wanting to make this decision.”
“Ernesto responded to God’s grace and his vocation by living Christian virtues in his family, in the performance of his profession as a doctor, in generous service to those most in need: the sick, the poor, orphans. Together with his wife, Clemencia, he transformed his house — blessed with five children — into a bright and cheerful home,” the priest noted.
Santiago Callejo, a priest and the postulator of the cause for Cofiño, shared that the layman always stood out for his generosity of life and that he was a good husband and father in addition to always trying to be a better doctor. According to Callejo, the new venerable considered his work as a way to serve others, “to change the piece of the world that God had entrusted to him.”