Catherine Tekakwitha

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Catherine Tekakwitha

[tek"äkwith'u]
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Catherine Tekakwitha , 1656–80, Native American holy woman, b. Auriesville, N.Y. Her name is sometimes given as Kateri Tegakouita. She was the daughter of a Mohawk chief and was baptized a Roman Catholic at the age of seven 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. The movement for her beatification began in the 1930s.

See biography by M. C. Buehrle (1954).

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