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This October 7, 2012 image shows a shrine dedicated to Kateri Tekakwitha in a sanctuary in Kahnawake near Montreal in Canada. On October 21, 2012 in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI will canonize Kateri Tekakwitha, as the first Native American saint. In Kahnawake, a reserve of the traditionally Iroquoian-speaking Mohawk nation on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, near Montreal, Mohawks and other First nations representatives, Catholics, but also Protestations and Traditionalists will gather around this 17th century marble tomb in her shrine, to pray and celebrate. AFP PHOTO / Michel VIATTEAU (Photo by MICHEL VIATTEAU / AFP) (Photo by MICHEL VIATTEAU/AFP via Getty Images)