NEW YORK - Hundreds of New York Catholics will attend this weekend's Vatican ceremony bestowing sainthood on two women whose religious roots were planted in the Mohawk Valley.
More than 400 parishioners and clergy members from across upstate New York arrived in Rome earlier in the week for Sunday's canonization for Kateri Tekakwitha, mother Marianne Cope and five others.
Kateri was a Mohawk Indian born and raised in the Mohawk valley in the 17th century. Mother Marianne became a nun in Syracuse in the 19th century before moving to Hawaii to care for leprosy patients.
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