She survived but was left with facial scars and impaired eyesight. When Tekakwitha was around four years old, her baby brother and both her parents died of smallpox. The Mohawk were absorbing many captured natives of other tribes, particularly their competitors, the Huron, to replace people who died from warfare or diseases. Tekakwitha's original village was highly diverse. Tekakwitha was the first of their two children. Mohawk warriors captured her and took her to their homeland. Kahenta had been baptized Catholic and educated by French missionaries in Trois-Rivières, east of Montreal. She was the daughter of Kenneronkwa, a Mohawk chief, and Kahenta, an Algonquin woman, who had been captured in a raid, then adopted and assimilated into the tribe. Snow and other specialists in Native American history in New York. A nineteenth-century claim that Auriesville developed at the site of Ossernenon has been disproved by archaeological findings, according to Dean R. It translates to 'She who bumps into things.' She was born around 1656 in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon in Northeastern New York state. Tekakwitha is the name the girl was given by her Mohawk people. She was beatified in 1980 by Pope John Paul II and canonized by Pope Benedict XVI at Saint Peter's Basilica on 21 October 2012.

She took a vow of perpetual virginity, left her village, and moved for the remaining five years of her life to the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake, just south of Montreal.

She converted to Catholicism at age nineteen. Born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, in present-day New York State, she contracted smallpox in an epidemic her family died and her face was scarred. Kateri Tekakwitha ( pronounced in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Catholic saint and virgin who was an Algonquin– Mohawk. Pressure to marry against will, shunned for her Catholic beliefs Saint Francis Xavier Church, Kahnawake, Quebec, CanadaĮcologists, ecology, environment, environmentalists, loss of parents, people in exile, people ridiculed for their piety, Native Americans Kahnawake (near Montreal), Quebec, CanadaĢ2 June 1980, Vatican City by Pope John Paul IIĢ1 October 2012, Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI

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