Namuncurá San Ignacio, Argentina – November 2024 – As part of the commemoration of the 17th anniversary of the Beatification of Ceferino Namuncurá, the community of San Ignacio, a town in Neuquén, organised a celebration, held from 8 to 10 November. The event opened with the arrival of the first gauchos on horseback, welcomed with the Mass celebrated by Fr Natalino Freitas. The next day, those present went on pilgrimage to the cemetery where Rosario Burgos de Namuncurá, Ceferino's mother, rests. At the altar in the cemetery, the tombs were blessed, the deceased were prayed for and flowers were offered in memory of each Mapuche. The pilgrims then went to the "kultrum", where the remains of the Blessed Mapuche rest. The pilgrimage was followed by torches to the top of the "Cerro Ceferino", where the pilgrims prayed in front of a bust of the young Mapuche. The event in honour of Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá was also attended by numerous authorities, including the Mayor of Junín de los Andes, Luis Madueño; the Mayor of Aluminé, Diego Victoria; Deputy Gabriel Álamo; the Minister of Education and the Governor of Neuquén, Soledad Martínez; and artist Alejandro Santana, author of the "kultrum" and the "Vía Christi", in Junín de los Andes. The formal greeting was addressed by Cirilo Namuncurá, president of the Ceferinian Commission. Mass was then celebrated by Fr Antonio Sánchez Lara, SDB, parish priest of Chimpay, Río Negro, the birthplace of Blessed Namuncurà, and concelebrated by Fr Natalino Freitas and Fr Isidoro Adami, SDB.