"I pray to her and I have a real warm feeling, really good feeling when I pray to her, and I know that she`s there or listening ... in 1986 ... I was really sick ... and I went to the hospital ... and he [the urologist] found cancer in my left kidney, so he told me that they`ll have to remove it ... so one of my kids that's really faithful ... she said, `Mom, I thought we`d have a prayer for you, have a Mass for you right here in your house ... And so my sister and all them came, and they had a mass in my house, and they offered it up to Kateri, and they asked for help and everything ... the next day ... I had the surgery ... So I came back. We had a Thanksgiving Mass in honor of Kateri, too. Said it didn`t spread or anything ... That was like a miracle to me."

Kathryn Clairmont (Lakota)

"I pray to her more often, especially at bedsides. Many of the people when I visit them in the hospital ... they're very sick ... A real friend ... she had cancer. I really, really prayed to Kateri for her healing, but it didn`t happen ... I was very disappointed. I also prayed for another patient and I thought maybe, I didn't understand what a miracle of healing [was] ... Maybe the miracle was he went home to God. I don't know. And I placed my own sister in ... her hands too. Even though she passed away, I felt that she was blessed in a way. And Kateri helped ... her passage. So during the work ... I`m doing, I feel like I call on her more often, to walk with me and help me with the patients."

Sister Gloria Davis, S.B.S. (Navajo/Choctaw)