Pope Benedict XVI has approved canonization of Canada’s soon-to-be first aboriginal saint - Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha -
Pope Benedict XVI has approved the canonization of Canada’s soon-to-be first aboriginal saint — Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha.
On Dec. 19, the Pope met with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, and signed decrees recognizing the miracles needed for the canonization of Tekakwitha and Blessed Marianne Cope of Molokai.
He has also advanced the canonization causes of 18 other men and women, and formally recognized the martyrdom of 64 Spanish Civil War victims.
A public canonization ceremony has not yet been set because there must be an “ordinary public consistory.”
This is a formal ceremony attended by cardinals in Rome to show their support for the papal decision canonizing the new saints.
Tekakwitha was known as the “Lily of the Mohawks.”
Born in 1656 to a Roman Catholic Algonquin mother and a Mohawk father in Upstate New York, Tekakwitha later converted to Catholicism in her teens. She was baptized in 1676 at the age of 20.
She died in Canada four years later.
She is entombed inside the St. Francis-Xavier Church in Kahnawake, a Mohawk community near Montreal.
Tekakwitha became the first Native American to be beatified in 1980.
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http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/12/19/kateri-tekakwitha-set-to-become-canadas-first-aboriginal-saint/
Pope Benedict XVI has approved the canonization of Canada’s soon-to-be first aboriginal saint — Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha.
On Dec. 19, the Pope met with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, and signed decrees recognizing the miracles needed for the canonization of Tekakwitha and Blessed Marianne Cope of Molokai.
He has also advanced the canonization causes of 18 other men and women, and formally recognized the martyrdom of 64 Spanish Civil War victims.
A public canonization ceremony has not yet been set because there must be an “ordinary public consistory.”
This is a formal ceremony attended by cardinals in Rome to show their support for the papal decision canonizing the new saints.
Tekakwitha was known as the “Lily of the Mohawks.”
Born in 1656 to a Roman Catholic Algonquin mother and a Mohawk father in Upstate New York, Tekakwitha later converted to Catholicism in her teens. She was baptized in 1676 at the age of 20.
She died in Canada four years later.
She is entombed inside the St. Francis-Xavier Church in Kahnawake, a Mohawk community near Montreal.
Tekakwitha became the first Native American to be beatified in 1980.
Read more -
http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/12/19/kateri-tekakwitha-set-to-become-canadas-first-aboriginal-saint/
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