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"

Photos by Marko Vombergar for Aleteia

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