Pope Francis prayed for therapeutic from what he known as the "horrible results of colonisation" as he led a pilgrimage to Lac Sainte Anne on Tuesday in Canada.
It was the final public look in Alberta earlier than heading to Quebec.
The Canadian lake has been recognized to indigenous peoples for hundreds of years as a sacred place of therapeutic.
Yearly on the Catholic feast day of Saint Anne, the grandmother of Jesus, tens of hundreds of Cree, Metis, Blackfoot, Dogrib and First Nations Indigenous folks make the pilgrimage to dip within the lake.
At one the Pope used a conventional picket device with a brush on the tip to bless the crowds of individuals.
The pontiff's six-day go to to Canada is to atone for the Catholic Church's position in operating residential faculties that forcibly assimilated the nation's indigenous kids into Christian society.
Earlier, Francis presided over Mass for tens of hundreds of Canadians at a stadium in Edmonton.
The 85-year-old traded his wheelchair for the 'Popemobile' to greet the enthusiastic crowd.
The joyful ambiance follows the solemn occasions on Monday when Francis travelled to Maskwacis to beg forgiveness from Indigenous survivors of the residential faculties in Canada calling their therapy a "deplorable evil."
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