Diapositiva 1

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The face of our hope
Ceferino Namuncurá
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Journey to Sanctity
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In May of 1905, Ceferino Namuncurá died in the
Fatebenefratelli hospital in Rome.He was ason
of a tribal chief in of Argentina and a pupil of
Salesian Missionaries
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He was declared Blessed on November 11, 2007.
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Ceferino was born on August 26, 1886 in
Chimpay, Patagonia. He was the sixth of ten
children of Manuel Namuncurá, Chief of the
Araucana tribe of Pampa, and Rosario Burgos.
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Don Domenico Milanese, one of the first
Salesian Missionaries in Argentina, baptized him
in November 1888 with the name Ceferino.
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His mother, a citizen of Chile, was one of the
wives of the chief.
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On May 5, 1884 chief Namuncurá was forced to
surrender to the Argentinean Army of General
Rocaand settle in the territory of Chimpay,
with the title of honorary Colonel.
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Wanting his son to be the future Chief and
defender of the Araucanians of the East, chief
Namuncurá decided to send Ceferino for higher
education. In 1897, he sent Ceferino to The
Tiger, a government school in Buenos Aires.
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But Ceferino didnt like the government school so
his father sent him to a Salesian School Pius
IX in Buenos Aires.
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There he met Monsignor Juan Cagliero, the
Apostolic Vicar to Patagonia, and in 1904, he
took Ceferino to Italy - Turín and Rome.
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Two events were very important in the spiritual
journey of Ceferino the reading of the life of
Dominic Savio and his first communion, during
which he vowed absolute fidelity to his great
friend Jesus.
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Ceferino was full of Christian and spiritual
vigor in small things. This means that simple
holiness is possible. We should not forget our
daily duties. In performing them we are called to
holiness.
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In Rome he had the privilege to be received in a
private audience by Pope Pius X to whom he spoke
and offered a gift of a fur Blanket(Quillango)
made from animal skin by his people.
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The Pope was pleased by what Ceferino said and
gave him a medal ad principes (of the
princes) as a gift.
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In spite of the good climate of the Salesian
House of Frascati, where he resumed studies,
Ceferinos health became worse. He was taken to
the Fatebenefratelli hospital in Tiberia Island
(Rome), where on May 11, 1905 he died.
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He was buried at the Cemetery of Verano in Rome
where he remained until 1924 when his body was
carried back to Fortín Mercedes, Patagonia.
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With his beatification, Ceferino has joined a
group of pious youth like Laura Vicuna who lived
in the spirit of St. John Bosco. They serve as a
model of holiness for young people in Latin
American and the entire world.
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The end