Kateri tekakwitha

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Saint Kateri’s feast day is coming up on July 14th! Today I am sharing with you ways to celebrate this special feast day. First here is a quick story about how we decided to name

St. Kateri Tekakwitha is the First Indigenous North American to be baptized a saint by the Catholic Church. She was born in 1656, in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon. Her mother was an Algonquin, who was captured by the Mohawks and who took a Mohawk chief for her husband. She contracted smallpox as a four-year-old child which scarred her skin. The scars were a source of humiliation in her youth. She was commonly seen wearing a blanket to hide her face. Worse, her entire family died during…

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha :: Saint of the day :: July 14 Saint Kateri Tekakwitha stands as a radiant figure, known as the Lily of the Mohawks. Born in 1656 in what is now upstate New York, Kateri’s life unfolded amidst the cultural crosscurrents of Native American spirituality and the introduction of Christianity by French missionaries. Kateri’s journey towards sainthood was marked by trials and profound spiritual transformation. Orphaned at an early age due to a smallpox epidemic that left…

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Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

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