Mi’kmaq peoples have had a long relationship with the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church. Father Christian LeClerq found in his journeys among Mi’kmaq in the mid to late 1600’s a people whose spirituality was so well defined with spiritual icons and celebration that he asked them what priest had come before him. Mi’kmaq have evolved their spirituality over time and today Mi’kmaq are continuing the traditions of their ancestors before them as well as reclaiming the traditions that existed well before Europeans brought Christianity. This section offers some glimpse at examples of spiritual traditions of Mi’kmaq through time.
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