An excerpt from Monseñor Jáuregui

Abstract

Venezuela is commemorating the centenary of the birth of Jesus Manuel Jáuregui Moreno, a clergyman born in 1848 who carried out a work that was work judged fundamental by his sheep and by the community at large. In the midst the hardships of an era that was not very conducive to intellectual formation, especially in the field of the church, which was under attack from the secular century, he managed to the secular century, he managed to develop a work of research on the country and a teaching work for the affirmation and and modernisation of religion, thanks to which he has been considered as a leading figure in the as a leading figure in the country's quest to achieve the progress that had been the destiny of progress that had been pending since the wars of independence.