{"id":5235,"date":"2011-12-20T07:49:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T12:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2011-12-27T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T14:37:49","slug":"the-first-mohawk-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/12\/20\/the-first-mohawk-saint\/","title":{"rendered":"The first Mohawk saint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI has signed the decree recognizing a miracle performed by the Mohawk-Algonquin woman born in 1656, and known as Kateri Tekakwitha.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican announced that the Pope has deemed her worthy of sainthood, so she will be canonized at a ceremony sometime in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Tekakwitha was a Native American baptized in 1676 in the Mohawk<\/p>\n<p>Valley. She fled to a mission in Canada after being scorned and<\/p>\n<p>threatened in her home village near what is now the village of<\/p>\n<p>Fonda.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Kateri <a href=\"http:\/\/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com\/2011\/12\/19\/first-native-american-cleared-for-sainthood-by-vatican-68333\">here, in Indian Country.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/04\/22\/135121360\/a-boy-an-injury-a-recovery-a-miracle\">a segment on NPR looked at the process of certifying Kateri\u2019s miracle<\/a>, which was then underway.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Benedict signed decrees Monday approving miracles attributed to six others, in addition to Kateri.<\/p>\n<p>The Blessed Marianne Cope, who also has ties to New York, was also on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Cope was a Syracuse Franciscan sister who cared for leprosy<\/p>\n<p>patients in Hawaii in the late 1880s. She&#8217;d previously taught and<\/p>\n<p>helped establish the first two hospitals in central New York in the<\/p>\n<p>1860s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI has signed the decree recognizing a miracle performed by the Mohawk-Algonquin woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4837,4790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions\/5236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}