The ‘Gaucho priest’ who Pope Francis sees as a model man of the cloth

Aleteia - published on 10/14/16

Blessed Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero who will be canonized on Sunday is said by the pope to have had "the smell of the sheep"

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