Regarding José Humberto Quintero (1960-1980), the first Venezuelan cardinal and twelfth archbishop of Caracas, he said the following: “He was a second father to me. He told me many times how his life was and I remember him as a great priest and an excellent Bolivarian.

He dedicated a good part of his life to pastoral and social work, in addition to historical research. He was spiritual director and teacher of many priests.

Tireless in the exercise of his priestly ministry and in his intellectual concerns. Those who had him as a teacher and professor evoke his erudition and amenity in the classes. Smiling and jovial, he always had a word of encouragement for those who approached him. He was a great devotee of the Virgin Mary ,  lover of the Eucharist, animator of the Brotherhoods of the Holy Sacrament.

He handled with legal competence and vast experience canon law, a specialty that he had studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He boasted of his consanguineous relationship with the liberator of whom he wrote a book called "Catholic Bolívar", highlighting certain virtues without the sad manipulation to which he has been subjected and devalued.

His intense commitment to those most in need led him to found Ciudad de los Muchachos the city of the children in Guarenas, Miranda state, a social and educational project for low-income children, which also had the support of Fe y Alegría.

At his more than one hundred years of life, Monsignor Alfonso de Jesús Alfonzo Vaz, complied with his daily participation in holy mass, the prayer of the Holy Rosary and confessed every Friday. "You have to be prepared for when God wants it," he repeated advising his consecrated brothers in the Priestly House of Caracas.

Until the last day of his life he had great mental lucidity and a memory that astonished all of us who listened to him.

On April 25, 2018, in one of his last acts in life, at his request and insistence, Monsignor Alfonzo Vaz went to Guanare because he wanted to say goodbye to the Virgin. There he arrived and with immense fervor and devotion she said to Our Lady of Coromoto: Mother I fulfilled you, I fulfilled you.

Less than three months later, having turned one hundred and one years of age, on July 19, 2018, he passed away while praying the Rosary because he knew that with the rosary one meditates on the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ who is God and with God we always win!