Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha is not yet a saint. She has been beatified. Many things of interest happened to her. One of the most startling happened at the moment of her death. Kateri had suffered from small pox was a child. The disease left her nearly blind and badly scarred. At the moment she died her complexion was totally cleared as though she had never had the disease.
The feast of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha is celebrated on July 14.
Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 in what is today the state of New York.
Saint Kateri is the patron of:ecologistsecologyenvironmentenvironmentalismenvironmentalistsexilesloss of parentspeople ridiculed for their piety
Her symbol is a a lily.
No. It is the lily.
Kateri Tekakwitha was half Mohawk and half Algonquin. She has not yet been canonized but is known as Blessed Kateri.
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha was not formally educated in a school setting. She learned about her faith from Jesuit missionaries and through personal reflection and prayer.
Blessed Kateri TekakwithaBlessed Kateri Tekakwitha is not yet a saint. However, she is in the final stage of canonization. Her father was Mohawk and her mother Algonguin.
Kateri Tekakwitha was born in the year 1656, the actual date is not known.
Kateri Tekakwitha was born around 1656 in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon near present-day Auriesville, New York.
Kateri Tekakwitha was a virgin and never married. Priests and monks, likewise, do not marry.
Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Kateri Tekakwitha are the patron saints of ecology and the environment.