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  • Argentina's "cowboy priest" to become country's first saint after performing two miracles

    10/16/2016 7:40:07 AM PDT · by Mrs. Don-o · 2 replies
    The Journal (Argentina) ^ | October 16, 2016 | not listed
    Fr. Jose Gabriel Brochero NICOLAS FLORES WAS supposed to live the rest of his life in a vegetative state, but today he walks, talks and swims – one of the miracles attributed to a “cowboy priest” who will become Argentina’s first saint today. Sixteen years ago, when Nicolas was nearly killed in a car crash, his father prayed to a late priest named Jose Gabriel Brochero, who is revered in Argentina for his supposedly miraculous healing powers. Brochero, a blind leper who lived from 1840 to 1914, was known for traveling on a mule across the vast Argentine pampas, or...