Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, baptised as Catherine Tekakwitha and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks, is a Roman Catholic saint, and was an Algonquin-Mohawk virgin and religious laywoman. Born in present-day New York, she survived smallpox and was orphaned as a child, then baptized as a Roman Catholic and settled for the last years of her life at the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake, south of Montreal in New France, now Canada. Tekakwitha professed a vow of virginity until her death at the age of 24. Known for her virtue of chastity and corporal mortification of the flesh, as well as being shunned by her tribe for her religious conversion to Catholicism, she is the first Native American to be venerated in the Roman Catholic Church, (after Juan Diego, the Mexican indian of the Virgin of Guadalupe Apparitions, and two other Oaxaca Indians). She was beatified by Blessed Pope John Paul II in 1980. She was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI at Saint Peter's Basilica on October 21, 2012. Various miracles and supernatural events are attributed to her name after her death.... More • http://en.wikipedia. ... Tekakwitha View • Books • Images • Videos • Search Related • Christianity • Enlightenment • Indians • Mohawk • Native American • New York • New York City • Saints • USA • Women • 17th Century • People