Ceferino Namuncurá was a Mapuche seminarian born in 1886 in Chimpay, Argentina. The son of a local cacique, he pursued religious studies with the Salesians of Don Bosco to serve his community. After moving to Italy to further his education, he died in Frascati in 1905 from pulmonary tuberculosis. He is remembered as a symbol of indigenous devotion within the Catholic Church and was the first South American native to be beatified.