Please join us for Mass at St. Anthony parish in Anchorage on the Feast of Christ the King (November 22 at 5:30 PM) where a special blessing of the archdiocese’s Alaska Native Cross will be carried out.
Created in the 1970s by Teddy Mayac of King Island, each drum represents a group of Alaska Native people: the topmost the Athabascan, the left and right the Iñupiat and Yup’ik, and the bottom the Aleut. Six eagle feathers, traditionally used in purification rituals, adorn the horizontal section of the cross, representing the Athabascan; Iñupiat; Yup’ik; Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian; the Aleut; and Native people in the Lower 48. Lastly, a crucifix gifted by Fr. Thomas Gallagher, S.J. is mounted on the center of the cross. At the Feast of Christ the King Mass, a sixth feather will be attached to the cross, replacing one that has been lost.
