Lummi Boy Whose Recovery Was Decreed a Miracle Attributed to the Help of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Travels to Rome to Meet the Pope

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On Sunday, October 21, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha will be canonized at the Vatican as the first American Indian saint in the Catholic Church. Jake Finkbonner, who is of Lummi tribal descent, and his family–mom Elsa, dad Donny, sisters Miranda and…read more

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