Tekakwitha
Americannoun
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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
In 1980, he beatified Kateri Tekakwitha, a native American lay woman who has since been made a saint.
From BBC ● May 10, 2015
Has she indeed allowed Tekakwitha to wander out and perish in the cold?
From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Walworth, Ellen H.
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