Tekakwitha

American  

[tek-uh-kwith-uh] / ˌtɛk əˈkwɪθ ə /

noun

1. Kateri or Catherine, 1656–80, North American Indian ascetic; convert to Roman Catholicism.

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Example Sentences

Reconnecting with the Catholic faith of her childhood, she also led a San Francisco prayer circle named for Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Algonquin and Mohawk woman who was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI.

From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2022

Those windows were later installed upstate, in the new St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church, in LaGrangeville.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021

That happened in the case of the first Native American saint, Kateri Tekakwitha, an Algonquin-Mohawk woman who lived during the 1600s and was beatified in 1980 by Pope John Paul II.

From Washington Times • Sep. 18, 2016

One Native convert to Catholicism, a Mohawk woman named Kateri Tekakwitha, so impressed the priests with her piety that a Jesuit named Claude Chauchetière attempted to make her a saint in the Church.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

The people of all the Mohawk villages were assembled for the occasion, Tekakwitha probably among them.

From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Walworth, Ellen H.