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He is worshipped all over the north of Patagonia and year after year thousands of pilgrims visit the places where he lived and where his remains are located.
He was born at Chimpay, a small town in Rio Negro Province.
Namuncurá's early years were spent by the Rio Negro River, and it was here that he, according to legend, miraculously survived a fall into the river.
His father Manuel, Chief of the Mapuches, promoted to honorary Coronel in the Argentine army, decided that his son study in Buenos Aires, in order to prepare himself "to be useful to his people." Thanks to the friendship of Manuel with General Luís María Campos, Minister of War and Navy of Argentina, the boy came to study in the National Workshops of the Navy as a carpenter's apprentice. There he would remain for three months. Ceferino wrote to his father that he was not happy in that place and Manuel then asked former Argentine president Luis S. Peña´s advise. He recommended to Coronel Manuel Namuncurá that he send the boy to the Salesians of Don Bosco.Ceferino went to study with the Salesians at a technical academy where he was given a Catholic education.
When he finished his studies, Manuel his father wanted him back home, to serve as interpreter and secretary, but Ceferino was already enthusiastic for becoming a Salesian priest.
Although his health was already generally frail, Ceferino, who was beloved by all his Salesian mentors, began studies for the priesthood. In 1904, he departed for Italy Don Bosco who was to become an Archbishop. Pope Pio X received them in September, after which Namuncurá moved to Torino and later to the Salesian College, to continue his education. He became increasingly ill during the Italian winter and was taken to Rome, were he finally succumbed to pulmonary tuberculosis on May 11, 1905.In 1924 his remains where returned to Argentina and placed at Fortín Mercedes, in the southern part of Buenos Aires Province.
At his birthplace of Chimpay was erected a small chapel, where believers from Río Negro Province and beyond began to pray for his intercession. In 1945, a request for his beatification was elevated to the Holy See. Between May 13 and July 10, 1947, the Catholic Church started officially the process for Canonization of Ceferino Namuncurá, with 21 then-living witnesses deposing evidence in favour of his saintly virtues.
On June 22, 1972 Pope Paul VI promulgated the Decree of Heroism of His Virtues and Ceferino was thus proclaimed venerable, becoming the first Catholic Argentine to receive that title and the first South American aborigine.
The devotion to Ceferino Namuncurá, the saintly young Mapuche, known popularly as The Lily of Patagonia ("El lirio de la Patagonia") became very extended in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In particular the humbler classes of Argentina recognise him, because of his indigenous features, as one of their own.
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Chimpay is a small rural town located 87 km. from Choele Choel. Ceferino Namuncurá, son of the indian chief Manuel Namuncurá was born here on the 26 of August, 1886.
Large processions take place on the anniversary of his birth and death, that start from "Mirador Cueva del Pavo" on Route 22, to Ceferino´s monument.
His remains lie in Fortín Mercedes, south of Buenos Aires Province.
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