1656-1680+Kateri+Tekakwitha

Kateri Tekakwitha

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 * Originally known as Catherine Tekakwitha informally known as Lily of the Mohawks was an Algonquin and Iroquois Native American religious lay woman from New France and an early convert to Roman Catholicism.
 * She was s hunned and exiled by her tribe.
 * She died at the age of 24 after professing her vows of virginity.
 * She is the first Native American woman to be venerated in the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Part of the Turtle Clan
 * Tekakwitha's mother was baptized and educated by French missionaries in Trpis-Rivieres.
 * She was captured at the start of a war with the Iroquois and taken to the Mohawk homeland.

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