Kateri Tekakwitha died the afternoon before Holy Thursday. Witnesses said that her emaciated face changed color and became like that of a healthy child. The lines of suffering, even the pockmarks, disappeared and the touch of a smile came upon her lips. She was beatified in and canonized in We like to think that our proposed holiness is thwarted by our situation. If only we could have more solitude, less opposition, better health.
Kateri Tekakwitha repeats the example of the saints: Holiness thrives on the cross, anywhere. Yet she did have what Christians—all people—need: the support of a community.
She had a good mother, helpful priests, Christian friends. These were present in what we call primitive conditions, and blossomed in the age-old Christian triad of prayer, fasting and almsgiving: union with God in Jesus and the Spirit, self-discipline and often suffering, and charity for her brothers and sisters.
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She began to lead a life inspired by the example of those men, and at age 20 she was instructed in religion and baptized Catherine rendered Kateri in Mohawk speech by Jacques de Lamberville , Jesuit missionary to the Iroquois Indians. Kateri Tekakwitha, whose feast we celebrate on July The first Native American saint from the territories of the future United States and Canada, she is popularly venerated as a patroness of ecology.
At the age of 13, she told her aunt that she never wanted to get married, an unusual declaration for a young Mohawk woman, but a common path for Catholic women who wanted to become nuns. In the spring of , Kateri told a visiting priest that she wanted to learn more about his religion.
The priest was delighted, and began formally instructing her in the prayers and rituals of his faith. Kateri was baptized in , at which time she took the name Kateri in honor of Saint Catherine. After enduring six months of ridicule and accusations of witchcraft from neighbors in her village, Kateri took the advice of her spiritual advisor and moved to the Jesuit settlement of Kahnawake.
Kahnawake, located just outside of Montreal, was a safe haven and spiritual community for Native men and women who had converted to Catholicism. Daily life in the settlement was a blend of Native and European practices. When Kateri arrived, she was welcomed by a warm community of Mohawk women converts just like her.
They explored their new faith together, and pushed each other to new extremes in their devotion. They experimented with ritual fasting not eating or drinking , self-mortification deliberately injuring the body to make up for sins , and asceticism extreme self-denial , all with the intention of bringing themselves closer to God.
Kateri was always the most extreme adherent of their new practices, and sometimes Claude had to step in to stop her before she did herself irreversible harm. 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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