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Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

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’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

40 Days of Catholic Saints: Day 4 St. Kateri Tekakwitha Patron Saint of: ecologists, ecology, environment, environmentalism, environmentalists, loss of parents, people in exile, people ridiculed for their piety, Native Americans, Igorots, Cordilleras, Thomasites, Northern Luzon,Diocese of Bangued, Vicariate of Tabuk, Vicariate of Bontoc-Lagawe, Diocese of Baguio, Philippines #Catholic #saint #Saints

Little Saints on Instagram: “St Kateri Tekakwitha aka Lily of the Mohawks, was born in 1656 in New Netherland (Now Auriesville, New York) to a Mohawk father and an…”

Today marks the feast of St. Kateri Tekakwitha. Four years ago, when she was canonized, I preached a homily about her, mentioning that the reredos behind our altar included a small statue of this new saint. I noted that it was dedicated decades before she was even beatified, and that her journey to sainthood was not exactly brief:

The Patron Saint or a supporter bless is a saint who in Roman Catholicism is observed as the tutelary fortitude or blissful supporter of a population, consign, dexterity, movement, category, relations, family or human being. The …

St. Kateri Tekakwitha ... Patron saint of American Indians and people in exile.