Description: This Quality Made 100% Wool Brown Scapular Honors Nicholas Black Elk Who "practiced his Lakota ways as well as the Catholic Religion," Looks Twice said. "He was comfortable Praying with his Pipe and his Rosary, and participated in Mass and Lakota ceremonies on a Regular Basis." The Catholic Church could get its second Native American saint if a Vatican research trip to South Dakota which lead to confirmation of two miracles performed by Nicholas Black Elk, a Lakota Sioux medicine man born in the Civil War era. Fr. Luis Escalante, a Vatican postulator, or researcher for sainthood candidates, recently spent several days in western South Dakota gathering information about Black Elk's life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Escalante spoke with local advocates for the cause, including some who testified to the reportedly miraculous powers of a man who practiced traditional Lakota rituals and also baptized more than 400 Native Americans. "It would be a big deal for the native people here: one of their own being recognized as a saint in the church," said Deacon Marlon Leneaugh, a Lakota tribesman who oversees native ministries for the Diocese of Rapid City. "The church has been here over 100 years, and this is an experience that they've never had before." If canonized, Black Elk would become only the second Native American Catholic saint. Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Algonquin-Mohawk, was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. On the other end of this Scapular is St. Kateri the First Native American Catholic Saint. St. Kateri was Born in the Mohawk Village of Ossernenon, on the south side of the Mohawk River in present-day New York State, she contracted smallpox in an epidemic; her family died and her face was scarred. She converted to Catholicism at age nineteen, when she was renamed Kateri, and baptized in honor of Catherine of Siena. Refusing to marry, she left her village and moved for the remaining five years of her life to the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake, south of Montreal on the St. Lawrence River in New France, now Canada. Tekakwitha took a vow of perpetual virginity. Upon her death at the age of 24, witnesses said that minutes later her scars vanished and her face appeared radiant and beautiful. Known for her virtue of chastity and mortification of the flesh, as well as being shunned by some of her tribe for her religious conversion to Catholicism, she is the fourth Native American to be venerated in the Catholic Church and the first to be canonized. This Scapular comes with a St. Benedict Medal, a Miraculous Medal and a Crucifix Medal. The Strings are 18 Inch Strong and Silky Soft. The 100% Wool pieces are your basic 2 inch by 1 1/2 inch. This Scapular comes with a Pamphlet explaining the Brown Scapular and I put in each order an Enrollment Pamphlet in case you or a family member needs to be enrolled. You take it with you to a priest and it makes the Enrollment go Quicker and Easier. I have 64 Different Scapulars on Ebay and you can see them all by clicking on this link! https://www.ebay.com/sch/micca-8822/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=
Price: 8.9 USD
Location: New Port Richey, Florida
End Time: 2024-07-25T15:54:33.000Z
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Handmade: Yes
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Material: 100% Wool