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When the young women learned about nuns, Kateri declared her intention of founding a convent. Claude marveled at her willingness to completely abandon her former life, and held her up as a model for the entire conversion mission in New France. On August 17, , Kateri died with the entire community of Kahnawake collected around her. Everyone who witnessed her death later swore that within minutes her smallpox scars disappeared, and her skin became radiant. They interpreted this as a miracle and a sign that Kateri was a saint, and built a chapel in her honor.
She was officially canonized as the first Native American saint in Regardless of the interpretation of her story, her life demonstrates the way life changed for Native women after the arrival of European colonists.
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Resource Life Story: Kateri Tekakwitha. The Mohawk Saint. Resource Teaching Materials Suggested Activities. Kateri Tekakwitha. Kateri Tekakwitha , Print Image. Kateri was officially canonized as the first Native American saint in Algonquian: Term for all of the people who spoke the Algonquian language. Jesuit: A Catholic priest who belonged to the Society of Jesus. Jesuits in New France were devoted to the task of converting Native communities to Catholicism.
Kahnawake: A community founded by Jesuits just outside of Montreal as a place for Native Catholics to live and practice their faith. Mahican: A tribe of Algonquian-speaking people who lived in the present-day upper Hudson Valley at the time of European contact. Today, descendants of the Mahicans live in Wisconsin as part of the Stockbridge-Munsee community.
She also realized that she was called into an intimate union with God as a consecrated virgin. Kateri had to struggle to maintain her faith amidst the opposition of her tribe who ridiculed her for it and ostracized her for refusing the marriage that had been planned for her.
When she was 18, Fr. Jacques de Lamberville returned to the Mohawk village, and she asked to be baptized. The life of the Mohawk village had become violent and debauchery was commonplace. Realizing that this was proving too dangerous to her life and her call to perpetual virginity, Kateri escaped to the town of Caughnawaga in Quebec, near Montreal, where she grew in holiness and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. Kateri lived out the last years of her short life here, practicing austere penance and constant prayer.
She was said to have reached the highest levels of mystical union with God, and many miracles were attributed to her while she was still alive. She died on April 17, at the age of Witnesses reported that within minutes of her death, the scars from smallpox completely vanished and her face shone with radiant beauty. Devotion to Kateri began immediately after her death and her body, enshrined in Caughnawaga, is visited by many pilgrims each year.
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