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Kateri Tekakwitha

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Kateri Tekakwitha (gädälē` dĕkhäkhwē`thschwa;, –dālē` dāgäkwē`tä) or Catherine Tekakwitha, 1656–80, Native American holy woman known as the Lily of the Mohawks, b. Ossernenon (now Auriesville, N.Y.). She was the daughter of a Mohawk chief and a captured Algonquin Christian, she was baptized a Roman Catholic in 1676 by a Jesuit missionary. Her tribespeople jeered and stoned her for her adopted faith, and she eventually went to a missionary settlement in Canada. Piety led her to the severest asceticism. She was beatified in 1980.

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See biography by M. C. Buehrle (1954).
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In Canada, the Feast of Blessec Kateri Tekakwitha is celebrated April 17, the anniversary of her death.
Memories of Kateri Tekakwitha renews faith in believers by Meili, Dianne / Windspeaker
And holiness is not a question of age; it is a matter of living in the Holy Spirit, just as Kateri Tekakwitha did here in America and so many other young people have done.
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He serves Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Parish in Banning, California.
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