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St. Kateri Tekakwitha
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St. Kateri Tekakwitha Statue of St. Kateri Tekakwitha at Assumption Catholic Church, Chicago.

St. Kateri Tekakwitha

Mohawk saint
Also known as: Catherine Tekakwitha, Kateri Tegakouita, Kateri Tegakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks(Show More)
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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 Indigenous woman of North America to be canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She is venerated as a patron saint of ecology. Tekakwitha was the child of a Mohawk father...

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