Kateri Tekakwitha

Kateri Tekakwitha (kwa lugha yake ya Kimohawk jina linatamkwa ˈgaderi degaˈgwita) aliishi tangu mwaka 1656 hadi 17 Aprili 1680; alizaliwa Ossernenon, leo Auriesville, New York, Marekani, akafariki Kahnawake, Quebec CanadaPierre Cholence, S.J., "Catharinae Tekakwitha, Virginis" (1696), Acta Apostolica Sedis, 30 Januari 1961.

Mtoto wa familia ya wakazi asili wa Amerika Kaskazini, anajulikana hasa kwa imani na maadili yake ya Kikristo, dini aliyojiunga nayo kwa kubatizwa na padri wa Kanisa Katoliki kwenye Pasaka ya mwaka 1676, akaendelea nayo bila kujali vitisho na upinzani wa ndugu zake, akishika pia usafi wa moyo aliokuwa amenuia kuutunza tangu kabla ya kuwa Mkristo https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/49325.

Alitangazwa na Papa Yohane Paulo II kuwa mwenye heri tarehe 22 Juni 1980, halafu Papa Benedikto XVI akamtangaza mtakatifu tarehe 21 Oktoba 2012. Ni wa kwanza kutoka makabila ya Waindio.

Anaheshimiwa kama mtakatifu bikira, hasa tarehe ya kifo chakeMartyrologium Romanum.

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Tanbihi

Marejeo
Bechard, Henri. "Tekakwitha". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966), vol. 1.
Sargent, Daniel. Catherine Tekakwitha. New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936.
Shoemaker, Nancy. "Kateri Tekakwitha's Tortuous Path to Sainthood," in Nancy Shoemaker, ed. Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women (New York: Routledge, 1995), p. 49–71.
Steckley, John. Beyond their Years: Five Native Women's Stories, Canadian Scholars Press 1999 ISBN 978-1551301501

Viungo vya nje

Darren Bonaparte (Mohawk), A Lily Among Thorns: The Mohawk Repatriation of Káteri Tekahkwí:tha, Wampum Chronicles, 2008
"Kateri Tekakwitha", Canadian Dictionary of Biography Online
Kateri Tekakwitha website 
"Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha" , Catholic Forum
"Kateri's Life" , Lily of the Mohawks website
Father Claude Chauchetière, "The Life of Catherine Tekakwitha" , 1695
"Blessed Kateri, Model Ecologist" , Conservation

Barbara Bradley Hagerty, "A Boy, An Injury, A Recovery, A Miracle?", NPR, 4 Novemba 2011
LORRAINE MALLINDER, "Holy Rivalry Over Kateri" , Montreal Gazette, 20 Machi 2010
"Sketch of Life of Indian Maid, Kateri Tekakwitha"  from 23 Aprili 1915 issue of the Recorder-Democrat a semiweekly publication, Amsterdam, NY
Account of location of Ossernon birthplace  written by Jesuit Fr. Loyzance (the original purchaser of the land at Auriesville) from St. Johnsville Enterprise and News 28 Novemba 1934

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