{"id":8005,"date":"2011-05-15T23:56:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T03:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=8005"},"modified":"2012-10-21T20:53:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T00:53:43","slug":"kateri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2011\/05\/kateri\/","title":{"rendered":"Kateri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[singlepic id=1712 w=440 h=240 mode=web20 float=](click on image for full view)<\/p>\n<p>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. \u00a0I asked my daughter if she knew what it was. \u00a0She didn&#8217;t know. \u00a0The moment was stored away in my mind&#8230;didn&#8217;t know the moment would be brought back to me as soon as it was.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After the <a href=\"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2011\/05\/may-crowning-on-may-15th-saint-adalbert-basilica\/\">May Crowning at Saint Adalbert Basilica<\/a>, I lingered around the church to shoot some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had many strange experiences and\u00a0coincidences pop up while doing stuff in B-F. \u00a0Today falls under both.<\/p>\n<p>While shooting, Saint Adalbert Parishioner Franky Szucko\u00a0pointed out one of the paintings to me in the church.<\/p>\n<p>The painting was of\u00a0Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha.\u00a0She was an American Indian who became Catholic in the late 1600s. \u00a0He told me has been fascinated with the painting and with her story since he was a child.<\/p>\n<p>I then told him my story about seeing the sign yesterday on the NYS Thruway. \u00a0He\u00a0thought\u00a0it was a strange coincidence as well.<\/p>\n<p>Goes to show&#8230;you never know what you may find inside of one of B-F&#8217;s treasures&#8230;a painting of an American Indian waiting to be\u00a0canonized\u00a0inside an old Polish church&#8230;pretty cool stuff.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Kateri\u00a0Tekakwitha and her National Shrine in Fonda\/Fultonville, New York by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katerishrine.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here-<\/a>&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>I will definitely have to check it out on one of my trips to visit my daughter in Albany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[singlepic id=1712 w=440 h=240 mode=web20 float=](click on image for full view) While driving back from Albany late yesterday after picking my daughter up from college<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,7,8,623],"tags":[670,212,186],"class_list":["post-8005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-alive-churches","category-b-f-places","category-b-f-preservation","tag-kateri-tekakwitha","tag-saint-adalbert-basilica","tag-saint-adalbert-basilica-buffalo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1Wcy1-kateri","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}