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Kateri Tekakwitha (pronounced [ˈɡaderi deɡaˈɡwita] in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine, and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Mohawk Catholic saint and virgin. Born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, in present-day New York, she contracted smallpox in an epidemic; her family died and her face was scarred. She converted to Catholicism at age nineteen.
St. Kateri Tekakwitha (born 1656, probably Ossernenon, New Netherland [now Auriesville, New York, U.S.]—died April 17, 1680, Caughnawaga, Quebec [now in Canada]; canonized October 21, 2012; feast day in the U.S., July 14; feast day in Canada, April 17) was the first North American Indian canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.. Tekakwitha was the child of a Mohawk father and a Christianized Algonquin mother. At age four she was the only member of her family to survive smallpox ...
Santa Kateri Tekakwitha, Washington . The blood of the martyrs. In 1646, the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, near present-day Auriesville, New York, was scarcely welcoming territory for Christian missionaries.
Jul 14, 2024 · Saint Kateri Tekakwitha’s Story. The blood of martyrs is the seed of saints. Nine years after the Jesuits Isaac Jogues and Jean de Lelande were tomahawked by Iroquois warriors, a baby girl was born near the place of their martyrdom, Auriesville, New York. Her mother was a Christian Algonquin, taken captive by the Iroquois and given as wife to the chief of the Mohawk clan, the boldest and fiercest of the Five Nations. When she was four, Tekakwitha lost her parents and little brother in a ...
St. Kateri Tekakwitha is the first Native American to be recognized as 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 ...
Early Life of Tekakwitha. Tekakwitha, known among her Mohawk people as "She who bumps into things," was born around 1656 in Ossernenon, a Mohawk village in what is now Northeastern New York state.Her father, Kenneronkwa, was a respected Mohawk chief, and her mother, Kahenta, was an Algonquin woman.Kahenta was captured in a raid and brought into the Mohawk tribe, where she was adopted and became part of the community.
Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, just a few miles west of present-day Auriesville, New York. Her Mohawk name, Tekakwitha, means “she who bumps into things.” Kateri was the daughter of Mohawk Chief Kenneronkwa. Her mother Tagaskouita was an Algonquian woman who was adopted by the Mohawk before her marriage. This was a common practice among the Mohawk in the 1600s.
St. Kateri Tekakwitha. St. Kateri Tekakwitha. Share. Known as the "Lily of the Mohawks", and the "Genevieve of New France" an Indian virgin of the Mohawk tribe, born according to some authorities at the Turtle Castle of Ossernenon, according to others at the village of Gandaouge, in 1656; died at Caughnawaga, Canada, 17 April, 1680. ... mother was a Christian Algonquin who had been captured by the Iroquois and saved from a captive's fate by the father of Tekakwitha, to whom she also bore a ...
Jun 30, 2024 · On July 14, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American to be canonized. Known as the "Lily of the Mohawks," Kateri lived a life of holiness and virtue ...
Jul 9, 2020 · On July 14, we celebrate the Memorial of the Virgin Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Indigenous American to be canonized as a saint. Known as the “Lily of the Mohawks,” she is the patroness of ecology and the environment. “The Lily of the Mohawks” Kateri was born to a pagan Mohawk chief and a Christian Algonquian woman in 1656.
