Today’s canonization Ping!
When I was 14, I went on a trip to Auriesville. The young lady guide took us to the site in the woods where Kateri lived. When we got there the open space in the woods was very bright, I thought, from the sunlight coming thru the trees. When I looked up, the tree canopy covered everything so we should have been in the shade but the ground was very bright as if sunlight was shining on it. I said “Wow!”
She`s my favorite saint.
An odd little factoid. I'd never heard of Kateri until I became a Catholic in 1990. When I was a young girl about 8, our family went on a trip out on the Cape. We took a day trip to Nantucket Island via steamboat. I've never forgotten the name of the boat, Kateri Tek, because it was so odd. Later it struck me it HAD to be named after Kateri. We pronounced it Kay'terry Tek. Anyway it appears there is a sister boat of a similar name.
All I remember is the chug chug, we couldn't get sandwiches from the machine in those days (safety), when we got near shore kids swam out to greet us, people would toss a coin and they'd dive for it. I would never have been allowed to do it. They were all boys.
Once on the island, all I remember is how pretty it was, some cobblestone streets, quaint houses and lots of roses in bloom.
I read lots about Kateri.
Father Guido Sarducci:
To be made a saint in-a the catholic church, you have to have-a four miracles. That’s-a the rules, you know. It’s-a always been that-a. Four miracles, and-a to prove it. Well, this-a Mother Seton-now they could only prove-a three miracles. But the Pope-he just waved the fourth one. He just waved it! And do you know why? It’s-a because she was American. It’s all-a politics. We got-a some Italian-a people, they got-a forty, fifty, sixty miracles to their name. They can’t-a get in just cause they say there’s already too many Italian saints, and this woman comes along with-a three lousy miracles. I understand that-a two of them was-a card tricks.