The Vatican bills Pope Francis’s stop at Edmonton’s Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples as an ‘encounter,’ which indicates a deeper, more intimate connection than a formal meeting
Mr. Marty, who picks medicines for his blend in Alberta and British Columbia, will smudge parishioners in Sacred Heart before the Pope arrives, but has been told the Holy Father will take a pass because one of his lungs was partially removed decades ago owing to pulmonary illness. “That’s okay. It is just an honour and a blessing to shake this man’s hand,” says Mr. Marty, who is 73.
Church officials expect the renovation and restoration effort, which revealed asbestos in the plaster, to cost $6-million. The work is an opportunity for While the church is not exclusively Indigenous – it has a notable Eritrean congregation, for example – symbols such as eagles, medicine wheels, and tipis send a crucial message, says Father Susai Jesu, who is among its current leaders.
Ms. Poitras, a member of Mikisew Cree First Nation, attended day school and says her parents were among the 150,000 Indigenous children estimated to have attended residential schools in Canada. Her father, she says, would not talk about his experience and died in 2017 without resolution. Ms. Poitras says her mom only recently started to talk about her time in residential school.
The papal visit was spurred in part by a number of Indigenous communities discovering unmarked grave sites near former residential schools last summer,The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement recognizes 139 residential institutions in Canada, with 26 of those in Alberta.
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