Ferndale family heads to Rome for canonization of first American Indian saint

The Sandy Point boy who nearly died when flesh-eating bacteria invaded his face and whose recovery was decreed a miracle attributed to the help of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha will be in Rome when she is canonized as the first American Indian saint in the Catholic Church.

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