CHIROGRAPH OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS

Having considered the request of the Venerable Brother Cardinal Baltazar E. Porras Cardozo, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Caracas (Venezuela), by Letter No. AAC/26-21, dated 9 March 2021;

Granted the petition of the Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical Lateran University;

I willingly dispose

That the Venerable Servant of God José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, lay faithful, born on 26 October 1864 in Isnotú, Venezuela, and who died on 29 June 1919 in Caracas, Venezuela, whose Beatification was established in the Archdiocese of Caracas on 30 April 2021, be made co-patron of the Peace Sciences Study Cycle, established by me in the Pontifical Lateran University with the Letter The Desire for Peace of 12 November 2018 (in AAS, CX [2018], 1720-1722), placing him alongside Blessed John of Peace.

From the Vatican, 26 April 2021

FRANCISCUS PP.