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| Kateri Tekakwitha |
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(gädäl ´ d khäkhw´thschwa;, –d l´ dgäkw´tä) (KEY) 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. | 1 | | See biography by M. C. Buehrle (1954). | 2 |
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