Vatican City (AP) - Jake Finkbonner so close to death after eating disease he cut through his lips, the last rites of his parents to discuss the donation of 5-year-old small organs.
In 2006, Jack medicine to cure the infection is baffled by the Vatican, the need to promote a 17th century Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha, and destroyed the "miracle". Katrina will be canonized on Sunday, together with six other people, Native American honor.
Jack was fully convinced that the prayers of the church, his family and the community to provide Katrina, is about to become the location of the relics of Saint Jack's legs, and is responsible for his survival.
Jack, now 12 and an avid basketball player and cross-country runner-up, will attend the canonization of Lummi tribal members and hundreds of people from the northwestern U.S. state of Washington, and remain in the United States and Canada gathered in Rome honor own. This is a ceremony of the Catholic Church, I hope this will encourage Native Americans to keep their Christian faith, the Catholic Church continued dissatisfaction with some impose their colonial-era missionaries a century ago.
"I believe that every person on this earth has a purpose," said Jack's mother, Elsa Finkbonner, shortly after the family arrived this week, a ceremony in Rome. "I think this Sunday, Jack will define his purpose, and that is to make Katrina a saint."
Jack, a poised, lanky boy who gets his braces, his role in the whole thing seems completely at ease, cordial and grateful for the doctors 29 surgeries to save his life, to rebuild his face.
"This is a very special thing," Jack told The Associated Press, his parents on both sides of the sofa in the hotel terrace. "We've never been to Rome, and the special session of the Pope? This will be an experience of a lifetime."
In addition to Katrina, Pope Benedict XVI will announce another a saint, to cope with mother Marianne (Sunday), a 19th-century Franciscan nun from Utica, New York - not far from where, Katrina life In two centuries ago - who take care of the lepers were exiled to Kalaupapa Peninsula, Hawaii. Another new saint is a Filipino teenager Pedro Calungsod, who was killed in 1672 with his Jesuit missionary priest locals resisted their conversion work.
Catholic faithful Saints will create a model, or even believe, their lives - to live hundreds of years ago - still relevant today Catholics. Saints the complex requirements of the decision-making process, the Vatican prove "miracles" through the mediation of a candidate - an inexplicable medical treatment, you can link directly to the offer prayers of believers. Need a miracle blessed canonization.
In Jack's case, 卡特里隆米 tribe, his father Downey is a Catholic has been an important figure. A carved wooden statue is located in the church Lummi Reservation, Washington Bellingham near the Canadian border, 25 miles (40 km) south of Jack grandparents worship and Downey remember being told Katrina as a children's story.
Known as the "Lily of the Mohawks" Katrina was born in 1656 to a pagan father of the Iroquois and Algonquin Christian mother in upstate New York today. Her parents and only brother died, she was in a pair of scarred smallpox epidemic, resulting in impaired vision. She and her uncle, the Mohawk to live, and was baptized Catholic Jesuit missionaries. But other locals she exclusion and persecution of her confidence, she died in Canada, she was 24 years old.
Tim pastor Sauer is the Finkbonner the parish priest in Ferndale, Washington - as well as visiting pastor Lummi Reservation - February 11, 2011 (Saturday) in 2006 when Jack cut his lip playing basketball. Necrotizing fasciitis bacteria, the body through the incision into the Jack immediately began to spread, Siu-yee at Seattle Children's Hospital, two days after Jack was airlifted to arrive, Donny and Elsa Finkbonner are preparing to bury their son.
"At this point, we are desperate, we are looking for any help, this will help our son," Downey said. Recalling the doctor said, now is not how many people they do but pray. and the possibility of their coming, their three oldest children may not be able to survive the week.
"We hope that Jack We worked hard," he recalls. "However, we are willing to give him" God.
Sauer, Jack last rites ceremony on Wednesday - four days after he put his lips - he immediately asked Finkbonners and minority reservation Katrina, prayer, thinking their common Native American heritage and scarring disease related.
He said he did this to save Jack, but also because he believed that Native Americans can use a confidence booster, if held one of their own a saint. He said, the indigenous Catholics increasingly find themselves excluded from their reservations and criticisms embrace and retain the Empire of the colonists of the spread of the Christian faith.
"There is a growing sense of a return Aboriginal spirituality reservations, this is a good thing, but at the same time has been some criticism of the local people should be allowed to go to Christian, because that is brought about by the" white man " should return to their native culture, "he said.
He said that Katrina indigenous Catholics today, it was resisted strange compatriots locals of the faith, and keep a perfect model.
For devout Catholic Finkbonners, prayer, they leave Jack's doctors tried for two weeks to prevent the spread of bacteria. Jack is most of the time in a drug-induced coma, and said he did not remember, some memories, "here and there, not all."
"Daily news seems to get worse," Downey recalled. "I remember the last day, the whole group of doctors, Elsa did not even want to hear her just behind me, closely rely on."
But, instead of the bad news, the doctor said that the infection has been stopped. "It's like a volcanic eruption, they open him go. Has stopped, which is a pretty amazing," Downey said.
Took several years to achieve Finkbonners turning point has come the day before, visited them in the hospital, praying, with their belongings on the upcoming family to a friend - a nun named Katrina - sage Jack legs.
"It took many years, we take a look at the calendar to remember this day, she came, her possessions, which is infection stopped," Elsa said. "Gone with the time of the survey, small fragmented puzzle seemed to fall into place, and that is all this is justified, why Jack's story turned out so great."
Jack, who bear the scars of his pain, it seems all too happy this weekend is the focus of attention. But he seems to be keen on his celebrity. His basketball trials, when he returned home, his research - he wants to become a plastic surgeon when he grows up. "Katrina was placed on this earth, on behalf of the many people, her pleading, she has defined her purpose," said Elsa. "In my opinion, Jack larger, bigger plans in his shop."


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