Venerable Ceferino Namuncura

Ceferino was born on August 26, 1886 and christened two years later by the Salesian missionary P. Domingo Milanesio. He received his first communion on September 8, 1898. He died on May 11, 1905, when he was only 18 years old. He was declared VENERABLE by Pope Paul VI on June 22, 1972.

• Prayer to request graces.
• Ann Ball devotes a chapter of her book Modern Saints to Ven. Ceferino.
• Bury Me Deep is Peter M. Lappin's 1974 account of the life of Ven. Ceferino.
• The Mapuche Nation has additional information about Ceferino's people.