The governor of Neuquén, Rolando Figueroa asked Pope Francis this Thursday to consider a visit to Neuquén, in the case of a possible trip to Argentina. In contact with the Supreme Pontiff, the president also made a special request for a “popular” saint greatly felt by the inhabitants of the province.
Figueroa met again with Pope Francis at the Vaticanthis time as part of the delegation that participates in the 1st International Meeting of Meaning. This is a meeting promoted by the Catholic organization Scholas Occurrentes and the CAF (Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean) that will begin tomorrow and will bring together political leaders, activists, businessmen and athletes from various countries around the world.
The governor was invited by the international credit organization with which he has been working to obtain financing for 237 million dollars and reactivate public works in Neuquén. This year the first 100 million would be disbursed, of which 50 would be for paving routes.
As far as he could know RÍO NEGRO Diarythe governor was able to meet with Pope Francis this Thursday as part of the end of his visit to the Vatican to participate in the international meeting.
There he offered the Pope an invitation to visit Neuquén, in case he decided to come to Argentina, an expectation that grew in recent days when it was reported that he had told the priest Pablo Viola that he “wants to go to the Argentina”.
Figueroa also asked for the sanctification of Ceferino Namuncurá, who was beatified by Benedict XVI in 2007 and is already considered a “popular saint” by the province of Neuquén and a good part of Patagonia.
Ceferino was native of Chimpay, Río Negrowhere he was born on August 26, 1886. He was the son of Manuel Namuncurá and grandson of the renowned chief Juan Cafulcuráwho fought against the Argentine Army in the Desert Campaigncommanded by Julio Argentino Roca.
He miracle that beatified Ceferino Namuncurá before the Vatican was recognized before the testimony of a woman from Córdoba that, they assure, She was instantly and completely cured of uterine cancer and was even able to conceive again.in a fact inexplicable to science, according to its believers, but which was corroborated by the doctors who treated the young woman.
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