The true origin of canonization and beatification must be sought in the Catholic doctrine of the worship (cultus), invocation, and intercession of the saints. As was taught by St. Augustine (Quaest. in Heptateuch., lib.
Some of the Lenape lived in large villages of two to three hundred people, but most of them lived in small bands of 25 to 50 people. 1  Families were important to the Lenape Indians. 2  The Lenape had three clans (or phratries) â Wolf, Turtle and Turkey â which traced their descent through the female line.
Dreidame said that when she moved to The Villages in 1999, there were about 20,000 people. There are five times that many now. Yet her neighborhood still feels like a small town that swells and shrinks with the arrival and departure of winter residents. During January to April, 95 percent of the houses have someone in them.