Pope signs decree for canonization of Venezuela's first saint

Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez — known as the "doctor of the poor" — will soon become Venezuela's first saint.

Pope Francis, the first South American pope, signed the decree for the canonization of Hernadez from a hospital in Rome on Tuesday. A date for his canonization has not been set.

The South American country has long sought the canonization of Hernandez, who died in 1919.

"This historic event, long