Congrats

Kateri Tekewitha and Cardinal Dolan

The Pope has bestowed two great honors to New Yorkers. Dolan is now a Cardinal and Kateri Tekewitha will be canonized a saint.
I have always loved her story- not because of the rumored Sioux smidgeon in my ancestry but because she is one of those incorruptibles who was a spiritual heir of the French Jesuit martyrs in North America. Jesuits came here when America was barely colonized in the 17th Century to spread the gospel with the native american tribes and nations here. I went to Junior High school in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania next to the Saint Isaac Joques church so I always was intrigued by who this person was. Finally I got to visit the place in upstate New York where they and the Mowkawk Chief's daughter Kateri were from. Her story is worth reading about and I imagine lots more will be published concerning her life. As one of the incorruptibles God is said to have restored her small pox marked skin to that of perfection upon her death. The transformation was visible to everyone apparently. Her relics were venerated by the tribe which had ancestry worship and when the tribe split her remains were split in half so each part of the tribe could carry part of her with them. She has a large shrine in upstate New York and there are places of interest also in Quebec and up the Saint Lawrence where she sailed via canoe to live for a time with Ursuline sisters. She died at age 24 but miracles are attributed to her brief life. Pray for us little sister Kateri.