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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