(AP) - On the eve of his inauguration, Louisiana Governor-elect Bobby Jindal and his incoming administration have attended Sunday Mass at St. Joseph's Cathedral in Baton Rouge.
Jindal was raised as a Hindu but became a Roman Catholic while in college.
In New Orleans meanwhile, worshippers gathered at St. Mary's Assumption Church to pray for healing.
Sunday's healing Mass was celebrated on the birthday of the Reverend Francis Xavier Seelos, a 19th-century Roman Catholic priest who's a candidate for sainthood.
Many of the city's Catholics already call Seelos the "saint of New Orleans" and scores of people believe they have been healed of cancer, poverty and near-certain death by praying to him.
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