Thursday, September 3, 2020

Celebration of Blessed Ceferino Namuncura

Celebration of Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá
Photo: Pedro Bautista

(ANS – Carmen de Patagones, Argentina – September 2, 2020) - On August 26, Bishop Esteban Maria Laxague, SDB, of Viedma presided over Mass on the occasion of the 134th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá, the first indigenous Blessed in South America. The celebration took place in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, the first parish in Patagonia, where Ceferino’s baptismal certificate is kept. On the occasion, moreover, the 140th anniversary of the arrival of the Salesians in the land dreamed of by Don Bosco was celebrated.

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