Tens of thousands of pilgrims, including Native Americans in tribal regalia, Hawaiians with leis and Bavarians in lederhosen, packed St. Peter's Square on Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI canonized seven saints, one a Mohawk who has long been an icon for Indians throughout the United States and Canada.
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A nun on Sunday attends the canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, for seven new saints including the first Native American saint, Kateri Tekakwitha, who lived in what is today upstate New York and Canada in the 1600s. Pope Benedict XVI called her "protectress of Canada."
