Argentine Indian beatified by Catholic Church in Patagonia

Ceferino Namuncura became the first Argentine Indian to be beatified by the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, in a ceremony before tens of thousands including Indians in bright ponchos and plumed headdresses.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of state, led the beatification in the wind-swept Patagonian community of Chimpay, as traditional Catholic rites mixed with sporadic drumming, cow horns and chants in the Mapuche language.”*

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