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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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The Girl Scouts of Nassau County, NY have just signed a contract to sell a 65 acre plot of land in Hampton Bay known as Camp Tekakwitha, to the Southampton Community Preservation Fund for approximately $16. ``It's in God's own time,'' said Slattery, pastor of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Church. Visit the sick--represented by Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680), "Lily of the Mohawks," the first Native American proposed for canonization. |
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