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CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2020 / 06:48 pm (CNA).- The Feast of St. Juan Diego, an Aztec peasant who witnessed an indigenous apparition of the Virgin Mary and later became the first canonized indigenous American saint, is a time for hope and healing for Native Americans and for recognition of the importance of Our Lady of Guadalupe in bringing Christ to the New World, a Native American priest said Wednesday.
“Hope has enabled me to live the Christian life and also to strive for and achieve my personal goals and aspirations, even as I have had to deal with historical traumas, and difficult challenges and obstacles, and untruths, that have been part of my journey as a native person of these lands,” Father Henry Sands, the eighth executive director of the the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, said in a Dec. 9 homily duri