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While driving back from Albany late yesterday after picking my daughter up from college for the summer, I saw a sign along the way for the Kateri Shrine. I asked my daughter if she knew what it was. She didn’t know. The moment was stored away in my mind…didn’t know the moment would be brought back to me as soon as it was.
Fast forward to today…
After the May Crowning at Saint Adalbert Basilica, I lingered around the church to shoot some pictures.
I’ve had many strange experiences and coincidences pop up while doing stuff in B-F. Today falls under both.
While shooting, Saint Adalbert Parishioner Franky Szucko pointed out one of the paintings to me in the church.
The painting was of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. She was an American Indian who became Catholic in the late 1600s. He told me has been fascinated with the painting and with her story since he was a child.
I then told him my story about seeing the sign yesterday on the NYS Thruway. He thought it was a strange coincidence as well.
Goes to show…you never know what you may find inside of one of B-F’s treasures…a painting of an American Indian waiting to be canonized inside an old Polish church…pretty cool stuff.
You can read more about Kateri Tekakwitha and her National Shrine in Fonda/Fultonville, New York by clicking here-–>
I will definitely have to check it out on one of my trips to visit my daughter in Albany.
In 2009 I visited Blessed Kateri’s shrine and the shrine of our Lady of the Martyrs near by in Aurisville where the North American Jesuit Martyrs were killed and Blessed Kateri was born. The shrines are beautiful and so near to Buffalo. I learned a lot about Kateri that I did not know.
What a coincidence!
I never noticed the painting.