Venezuela is getting ready to have its first saints ever officially canonized by the Vatican on Sunday amidst growing tensions with the U.S.

Walls throughout the city are filled with murals depicting Dr. José Gregorio Hernandez and Carmen Rendiles, who are both are set to become the first saints of the country.

"I think the message God is giving us is extremely special: to walk together, to go together, to face different difficulties, to overcome them," said artist Maria Ines Gomez, a devotee of Carmen Rendiles who went on Friday to pray at the Congregation of the Handmaids of Jesus in Caracas.

Of the two soon-to-be saints, José Gregorio Hernandez is more widely known and revered throughout the nation. Hundreds of Venezuelans have their own personal, touching, stories claiming the beloved physician showed up for them in moments of difficulty and healed them.

His canonization have been demanded by Venezuelan faithful for many decades and comes at a time when tensions with the United States are growing. U.S. president Donald Trump recently said he had authorized covert CIA action in Venezuela and his administration continuously striking boats in the Caribbean claiming they carry drugs from Venezuela.

Trump added the administration “is looking at land” as it considers further strikes in the region. He declined to say whether the CIA has authority to take action against President Nicolás Maduro.

In the midst of the tensions, a big celebration will take the streets of downtown Caracas with live broadcast from the Vatican as Rendiles and Hernandez officially become saints.

Born in 1903 in Caracas, Rendiles joined a French congregation in Venezuela in 1927 and became a novice at age 24. In 1961, supported by the local Catholic hierarchy, she founded an autonomous congregation.

Hernández, born on Oct. 26, 1864, in the western Venezuela town of Isnotu, never married and graduated as a doctor in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, in 1888.

He was convinced that science was one of the main ways to pluck the South American country out of misery and went on to establish two research institutions as well as teach several classes at the Central University of Venezuela, the nation’s oldest and largest.

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