The Catholic Church of Uruguay celebrated this Saturday, May 6, a mass to beatify Jacinto Vera (July 3, 1813 - May 6, 1881), first bishop of Montevideo and son of a couple from Tinajo who emigrated to Brazil and Uruguay,
The meeting took place in the Montevideo stadium and was attended by thousands of people who came from different parts of the country and were located in the Olympic grandstand, below the historic Tower of Tributes. Among the participants were the president of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, and the vice president, Beatriz Argimón, as well as former presidents Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera (1990-1995) and José Mujica (2010-2015).
Jacinto Vera was born at sea on a ship carrying his parents, Gerardo de Vera and Josefa Durán -she was pregnant with Jacinto- and his three siblings -Francisco Antonio, Dionisio Antonio de los Dolores and María Teodora- heading to Uruguay, but they had to disembark in the Brazilian region of Santa Catalina, in the port that is now called Florianópolis, according to the priest Julio Sánchez Peñate in his biographical study on Jacinto Vera Durán.
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