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Futonville and Kateri

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Heute müssen wir „Kilometer machen“. Wir wollen mindestens die Hälfte der Fahrtstrecke nach Boston hinter uns bringen. In Niagara on the Lakes fahren wir über die Grenze und dann auf dem Thruway 90 nach Osten bis Futonville / Auriesville in New York State. Wir übernachten wieder einmal auf einem Gelände von Jesuiten dem „Shrine of our Lady of Martyr’s„. Hier wurden, wie in Midland, Jesuitenmissionare ermordet und eine riesige Gedenkstätte errichtet. Außerdem ist hier der Geburtsort von Kateri Tekakwitha. Kateri wird die erste Heilige der Native Peoples sein. Sie wird in einigen Wochen, am 21. Oktober, in Rom heiliggesprochen werden.

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Tiffany’s at Lockport

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On a rainy day we visited the First Presbyterian Church in Lockport NY just across the Canadian / US border to see the Stained Glass windows made in the Tiffany Studios New York. Some of them are made by Louis Comfort Tiffany himself! The latest one in another Studio in Tiffany“s tradition. As expected it took us about half an hour to pass the US border. We had our new Austrian passports with all fingerprints in it and had registered properly via internet from Austria and then we waited in a hall with a crowd of other people. After answering a lot of questions like „Are you member of a terrorist organization?“, writing down our names and date of birth for another 4 times, we were asked to give our TEN fingerprints again and also our iris was scanned! Is this the freedom of the USA which made so many people come to the New World with lots of hope and engagement? Also by the officers allover, in bullet proof vests and with guns, we …