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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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The Pope was quoting Mother Marie de l'Incarnation (who fittingly, along with the Mohawk girl, Kateri Tekakwitha, was beafified the same day as Laval) who said: "I will say in all truth he lives like a saint and like an apostle.
Bishop Francois de Laval: spiritual architect of Canada by Williams, Lorraine / Catholic Insight
February is the bronze statue of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first American Indian canonized as a saint.
PHOTOGRAPHER CAPTURES CATHEDRAL'S BEAUTY FOR ALL by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
FATHER PAUL BOUDREAU is the priest minister of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Parish in Banning and Beaumont, California.
When bad things happen to good parishes: parishes can't always ... by Boudreau, Paul / U.S. Catholic
 
 
 
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