NY Catholics Set for Blessed Kateri's Canonization

WALL STREET JOURNAL
By Associated Press

NEW YORK--- For more than 300 years, generations of faithful Catholics have prayed for the sainthood of Kateri Tekakwitha. On Oct. 21, they'll celebrate her canonization. "People have been praying for this since the moment of her death," said Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine museum director Beth Lynch. The shrine sprawls out over the hilltop where Kateri was born in 1656. In those days it was a Mohawk village call Ossernenon. Kateri was the daughter of a captive Catholic-Algonquin mother and Mohawk chief in a time when the Catholicism was first working its way through the country. On Oct. 21, the Mass will be one of thanksgiving. After that Kateri will be one of more than 10,000 Catholic saints. [link]