Kateri Tekakwitha | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Kateri Tekakwitha


00:01:24 1 Early life and education
00:04:12 2 Upheaval and invasions
00:07:19 3 Feast of the Dead
00:08:33 4 A chief converts
00:09:16 5 Family pressures
00:10:34 6 Conversion and Kahnawake
00:12:41 7 Mission du Sault St. Louis: Kahnawake
00:13:43 7.1 Chauchetière and Cholenec
00:15:14 8 Penances
00:16:19 9 Friendship with Marie-Thérèse
00:17:01 10 Death and appearances
00:19:14 11 Epitaph
00:20:20 12 Religious veneration
00:25:22 13 Miracles
00:27:54 14 Controversy
00:28:49 15 Cultural references
00:30:59 16 Legacy



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Saint 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 Roman Catholic saint who was an Algonquin–Mohawk laywoman. Born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, on the south side of the Mohawk River, she contracted smallpox in an epidemic; her family died and her face was scarred. She converted to Roman Catholicism at age nineteen, when she was renamed Kateri, baptized in honor of Saint Catherine of Siena. Refusing to marry, she left her village and moved for the remaining 5 years of her life to the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake, south of Montreal in New France, now Canada.
Tekakwitha took a vow of perpetual virginity. Upon her death at the age of 24, witnesses said that minutes later her scars vanished and her face appeared radiant and beautiful. Known for her virtue of chastity and mortification of the flesh, as well as being shunned by some of her tribe for her religious conversion to Catholicism, she is the fourth Native American to be venerated in the Roman Catholic Church and the first to be canonized.Under the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, she was beatified in 1980 and canonized by Pope Benedict XVI at Saint Peter's Basilica on 21 October 2012. Various miracles and supernatural events are attributed to her intercession.