" ... She's like my sister, because being the only child and she is too. She`s someone I can just talk to freely. At work I have her picture there with me and she's like, I have that communication. I don`t even have to say anything. It`s just my thoughts, she ... knows of them. And sometimes I would just hang up ... her medal. With my work there`s a lot of stress ... It's almost like calm me down, hold me or help me, or find that space for me..."

Deacon Sherman Manuelito (Navajo)

In rural Venezuela among the mixed blood people:  " On the feast day of Our Lady, these young people were going around passing out little cards, and when I looked down, it said [in Spanish], 'Blessed Kateri.' Am I seeing things? And then I looked again, Blessed Kateri. So I asked one of the young people ... 'Blessed Kateri,' I says, 'Tell me about her.' And they said, 'She`s our saint. She does many miracles for us. She takes care of us.`... Blessed Kateri does beautiful miracles for this poor people ... [She] is blessing these people because they are so much in need, dire need, they live up in the mountains and they don`t have any conveniences that we have. They have to carry everything to their little homes ... just little, put together, huts-- they have nothing like we have!"

Nickie Miranda (Yaqui)