"[When my sister was about to be born, the doctors told the nurses that] she would probably die. So some nurse I guess got to my mom and told her about Kateri and said why don't you pray to her, maybe she'll help you. And my mom never knew about Kateri. So my mom said that she prayed to Kateri...So she said if you let my daughter live, I`ll name her Kateri. And I'll not cut her hair like, I'm not going to cut her hair until she comes of age as an adult, which would be 18 years. So she lived, and from that day my mom never cut ... [it] except for the bud on the tips of them and I often wondered when I was young and I seen it. She all had this long hair, it just grew, it just grew, it just grew ..."

Joseph W. Thomas (Pima)

" 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)