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North American Indians in headdresses await the start of a canonization ceremony celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. Those people elevated to sainthood included Kateri Tekakwitha, the first American Indian saint, and Mother Marianne Cope, who nursed lepers in Hawaii. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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** FILE ** This 1883 file photo provided by the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities shows Mother Marianne Cope, a nun who dedicated her life to caring for exiled leprosy patients on Kalaupapa in Hawaii. On Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, almost a century after she died at the remote Kalaupapa leprosy settlement in 1918, the Vatican will formally recognize her as a saint. (AP Photo/Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, File)

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