Pagan devotion II

Candles in tribute to "Gauchito Gil"
The Gauchito Gil is a religious figure, an object of popular devotion in Argentina. Your historical foundation is in the person of the gaucho Antonio Gil Núñez, of whom little is known with certainty, it is not included in the Catholic liturgy.

He was born in Pay Ubre, near Mercedes, in the province of Corrientes, around 1840 and was murdered on January 8, 1878, about 8 kilometers from the same city.