Gallery: Canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha

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American Indians in attendance for Kateri Canonization on October 21.

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Thousands of spectators, many wearing flowered lei, feathered headdresses and traditional attire, and others carrying banners and flags assembled at Piazza San Pietro as Pope Benedict XVI presided over a special mass to name seven new saints at the Vatican on October 21.

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Canonization ceremony on October 21 at the Vatican in Rome.

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The canonization ceremony on October 21 at the Vatican.

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Chief Tom Dearhouse, ?Kahnawake, Mohawk? said he was "speechless" following the ceremony.

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Elizabeth Taylor, Mohawk, "Personally, it's an affirmation of my Christian faith, with no loss of my traditional way of life."

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Blessed Kateri portrait

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Melisa Lagasse, Mohawk Nation thinks the Three Sisters (corn, bean and squash) or companion agriculture is a good way to understand the blending of Native spirituality and Christianity.

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An unidentified Mohawk woman raises her eagle feathers high over head during the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha.

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Nine members of the Hawaiian delegation came to the canonization of Maria Anna Cope of Germany, also known as the Saint Marianne of Moloka?i serving lepers in Hawaii. Pictured are Winifred Harada, Pauline Chow, Gloria Marks.

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Vicky Phillips, Mohawk Nation, St. Regis Indian Reservation, "We now have someone to pray to in our image."

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Gallery: Canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha

By:

Julianne Jennings

October 22, 2012

Thousands of spectators, many wearing flowered lei, feathered headdresses and traditional attire, and others carrying banners and flags assembled at Piazza San Pietro as Pope Benedict XVI presided over a special mass to name seven new saints at the Vatican on October 21.

Kateri Tekakwitha, Mohawk, also known as “Lilly of the Mohawks,” became the first American Indian canonized and the ceremony was celebrated by many American Indians in attendance.

These pictures share the celebration in the honor of Saint Kateri.

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