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21/11/2007 - Argentina - Echoes of the beatification of Ceferino Namuncurá
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(ANS – Buenos Aires) – On Sunday 18 November, a week after the beatification of Ceferino Namuncurá on 11 November at Chimpay, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Primate of Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, presided at a Mass in which a large number of devotees of the new Blessed an members of the Salesian Family took part.

The Mass which was celebrated in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in the Almagro district,  was preceded by a procession with the statue  of Blessed Ceferino which started from the “San Francis of Sales”, Salesian Institute and passed by the Pius IX Institute where the “lily of Patagonia” studied between 1897 and 1902 and ended at the parish church.

In his homily, Cardinal Bergoglio exhorted the faithful to follow the example of the first native Argentinian Blessed, and quoting the words of the young Mapuche,  he encouraged them to be at the service of the people rather than being served by the people.

Describing the beatification of Ceferino as “the fruit of the dreams and the work of Saint John Bosco”, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires emphasised that he represented for Christians “a way of life.”

The Sunday celebration was preceded by other events and activities. On  16 November Bishop Juan Guillermo Durán, gave an account of the life of  Ceferino Namuncurà in the church in Hipólito Yrigoyen 4000, which was followed by a concert by a choir conducted by Pablo Bianchi.

On Saturday 17 November, the students of the Salesian Institutes in the area of Almagro took part in the “Ceferinian Olympics”; on the programme there was also a marathon which starting from  the entrance of the Pius IX Institute, went to the cross roads between Don Bosco and Yapeyú streets.

Published 21/11/2007

 

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