Canonizations!

On Sunday, Oct. 21st - the Pope canonized 7 new saints in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican! I was lucky enough to get a ticket through the school and early that morning (6am) we arrived to ever-so packed streets of Catholics waiting to get in. It was hectic, it was cold, and it was awesome. We got seats among thousands of others to watch the POPE (WE.SAW.HIM) canonize:

Kateri Tekakwitha - first Native American Saint!
Marianne Cope - born in Germany, but ministered to those in Hawaii, Franciscan Sister of Syracuse
Anna Schaffer - German lay woman
Maria del Carmen - foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Spain
Giovanni Battista Piamarta - Italian priest, founded the Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth
Pedro Calungsod - second Filipino saint
Jacques Berthieu - French Jesuit and martyr

6am - standing in line

7:30 - still standing in line, but I loved the sunrise

just grabbed our seats - this is a pretty small fraction of the people there - the entire square is still behind me

WE SAW THE POPE!!!!! After mass he came around on his pope-mobile and I got this pic!

That's it for now - the 10 day break starts tomorrow and we are off to Paris! Wednesday I return and await the arrival of my daddy on Thursday :)

Ciao!