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|feast_day = 26 January |venerated_in = Roman Catholic Church |beatified_date = 14 September 2013 |beatified_place = Córdoba, Argentina |beatified_by = Cardinal Angelo Amato |canonized_date = |canonized_place = |canonized_by = }} Blessed Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero (16 March 1840 – 26 January 1914) was a Roman Catholic Argentinian priest who suffered leprosy throughout his life. He is known for his extensive work with the poor and the sick. He became affectionately known as "the Gaucho priest" and the "cowboy priest". He was beatified on 14 September 2013 after a healing was recognized as a miracle attributed to him. Cardinal Angelo Amato – on the behalf of Pope Francis – presided over the beatification. Another miracle is now under investigation for his canonization. ==Life== Brochero was born on 16 March 1840 in Argentina as the fourth of ten children to Ignacio Brochero and Petrona Davila; he had two sisters and the others were brothers. He was baptized on 17 March along with the registration of his birth. He commenced his studies to become a priest at the College Seminary of Our Lady of Loreto on 5 March 1856 at the age of sixteen and during his studies he met the future president Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman. Brochero later received the tonsure on 16 July 1862. He was later received into the subdiaconate on 26 May 1866 and then into the diaconate on 21 September 1866. He had joined the Dominican Third Order on 26 August 1866. He was ordained to the priesthood in the diocese of Córdoba on 4 November 1866 at the age of 26 under Bishop José Vicente Ramírez de Arellano and celebrated his first Mass the following 10 December. Brochero was later appointed as a prefect of studies of the seminary and was awarded the title of Master of Philosophy on 12 November 1869. Brochero founded a home in 1875 for people and later established a school for girls in 1880. He requested and obtained from the authorities courier posts, post offices and telegraphic posts and also planned the rail network that would go through the Valley of Traslasierra joining Villa Dolores and Soto. He devoted all of his energy to those who required his help and no sick person was left devoid of the sacraments, as there was no force that could stop him helping them, and he had even said "woe if the devil is going to rob a soul from me". He was known to travel long distances in Argentina on the back of a mule dressed in a sombrero and a poncho to serve the needs of the Christian faith throughout his huge parish. He cared for the sick during the cholera epidemic of 1867 and contracted leprosy during his travels; it was believed that it came from drinking yerba mate with some of the patients with the affliction. He became well known to his parishioners and made efforts to improve all aspects of their involvement in church life. He became blind and deaf towards the end of his life.〔 Throughout his travels to meet parishioners he would bring with him the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, his Mass kit and a prayer book. He was appointed to successive positions such as Canon of the Cathedral of Córdoba on 24 April 1898. He left for that post on 30 May but was later appointed as a pastor in Villa del Transito on 25 August 1902, arriving there on the following 3 October. He resigned from his position as pastor on 5 February 1908 and returned the following 30 March back home to live with his sisters.〔 Brochero died on 26 January 1914, his last words being: "Now I have everything ready for the journey".〔 A Catholic newspaper later wrote of him: "It is known that Father Brochero contracted the sickness that took him to his tomb, because he visited at length and embraced an abandoned leper of the area".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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