Ceferino
Ceferino is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Ceferino Garcia (1912–1981), champion boxer born in Naval, Biliran, Philippines *Ceferino Giménez Malla (1861–1936), Spanish Roman Catholic catechist and activist for Spanish Romani causes *Ceferino Labarda (born 1981), bantamweight boxer from Argentina *Ceferino Namuncurá (1886–1905), saintly religious student venerated in northern Patagonia and throughout Argentina *Ceferino Peroné (1924–2015), Argentine cyclist *Ceferino Quintana (1894–1977), American politician See also *Zeferino *Zephyrinus Zephyrinus is a Latin masculine name (derived from the Greek , the name of the west wind). The name has related forms in modern languages: * Zéphyrin or Zéphirin ( French); feminine: Zéphyrine * Zephyrin or Zephirin (German); feminine Zephryin ...

Ceferino Namuncurá
Ceferino Namuncurá (August 26, 1886 – May 11, 1905) was a religious student, the object of a Roman Catholic ''cultus'' of veneration in northern Patagonia and throughout Argentina. Early life He was born at Chimpay, a small town in Valle Medio, Río Negro Province, Argentina, the sixth child of Rosario Burgos and a Mapuche '' cacique'', Manuel Namuncurá. At the age of eight, he was baptized by a Salesian missionary priest, Domingo Milanesio. Namuncurá's early years were spent by the Río 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 colonel in the Argentine army, decided that his son would study in Buenos Aires to prepare himself "to be useful to his people." Thanks to the friendship of Manuel with General Luís María Campos, Minister of War and the Navy of Argentina, the boy came to study in the National Workshops of the Navy as a carpenter's appre ...
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