#catherine tekakwitha

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Do you have any images that portray St. Kateri more accurately?

I'm going to take this opportunity to respond to your earlier question re: diet as well. Kateri's avoidance of meat was not, in itself, a penitential practice, but it was intimately related to her celibacy, since in Haudenosaunee culture at that time access to venison had a lot to do with a man's, a husband's, role in the family structure. Without a husband Kateri would have had to scrounge for the results of the seasonal hunts rather than having implied access to them. The one time she went on one of the hunts herself, in the winter of 1677-8, was a traumatic experience for her (not for reasons related to hunting qua hunting; she was accused of sexual impropriety and it took weeks to clear her name).

Here's the only painting of her by someone who knew her in life, Father Claude Chauchetière SJ. Note that during her lifetime she would also have had a heavily scarred face from a childhood case of smallpox; this portrait represents her appearance in apparitions shortly after her death.

Note that she appears to have long, loose hair, but is covering it with a heavy blanket or mantle. The dress is also a bit more similar to conventional Euro womenswear than the "braids-and-buckskins" pan-Indian look she's conventionally depicted with today. This isn't necessarily due to European influence, although that is a possibility; Haudenosaunee women in this period seem to have dressed more or less like this in general.

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About St Kateri Tekakwitha (left)

About St Catherine of Siena (right)

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"how can you blog about saints without believing in god" catherine tekakwitha was a real person and god isn't. 👍

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SOME PIXELLY DRAWINGS OF SAINTS

Francis Solanus, Bibiana, Bernadette, Athanasius of Alexandria, Rita of Cascia, Charles de Foucauld, Rafqa, Pio of Pietrelcina, Moses the Black, Eulalia of Barcelona.

Valentine, Maximilian Kolbe, Clare of Assisi, Devasahayam Pillai, Thomas Aquinas, Dymphna, Faustina Kowalska, Maria Goretti, Quiteria, John the Baptist.

Judas Thaddeus, Teresa of Ávila, Joan of Arc, Óscar Romero, Francis of Assisi, Martín de Porres, Rosa of Lima, Juan Diego Cuāuhtlatoātzin, Kateri Tekakwitha, Catherine of Siena.

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The saint who bumped into things An image of purity, courage, and prayer, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha was the first Native American woman to be canonized by the Catholic Church. Daughter of a Mohawk chief and an Algonquin Indian woman who had converted to Catholicism, she was born in in present-day New York in 1656. A smallpox epidemic in 1661-1663 left her an orphan, with a badly scarred face and impaired eyesight.

Because of her poor vision, Saint Kateri was named "Tekakwitha," which means "she who bumps into things.”

She was taken in by her uncle, who was bitterly opposed to Christianity. As a young girl, in accordance with Iroquois custom her foster family paired her with a young boy who they expected she would marry. However, Saint Kateri chose to dedicate her life to God.

When she was 18 she began instruction in the Catholic faith in secret, having come into contact with the Jesuit missionaries that frequented Mohawk villages after the French forces defeated the Mohawks. Her uncle finally relented and gave his consent for her to become a Christian, provided that she did not try to leave the Indian village. For joining the Catholic Church, the young girl was subjected to accusations of sorcery and promiscuity, and ridiculed and scorned by villagers who even threatened her life.

Taking the name Kateri (Catherine) at baptism, two years later she escaped to the Mission of St. Francis Xavier, a settlement of Christian Indians in Canada.

The village in Canada was called “the village of the praying Indians.” Here she was known for her gentleness, kindness, and good humor. On Christmas Day 1677 Saint Kateri made her First Holy Communion and on the Feast of the Annunciation in 1679 made a vow of perpetual virginity. She also offered herself to the Virgin Mary, asking Our Lady to accept her as a daughter.

Most of these early Indian converts were women, devoted to the Christian ideals of charity and asceticism. When they learned of nuns and convents, many wanted to form their own and created an an informal association of devout women. Saint Kateri taught prayers to children and worked with the elderly and sick. She would often go to Mass both at dawn and sunset and was known for her great devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Cross of Christ. A Jesuit priest quoted Saint Kateri as saying: “For a long time my decision on what I will do has been made. I have consecrated myself entirely to Jesus, son of Mary. I have chosen Him for my husband and He alone will take me for wife.”

During the last years of her life, she endured great suffering from tuberculosis. She died on April 17, 1680, shortly before her 24th birthday, and was buried in Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada. Her final words were "Jesus — Mary — I love you."

The Jesuit priest Fr. Cholenec later wrote: “This face, so marked and swarthy, suddenly changed about a quarter of an hour after her death, and became in a moment so beautiful and so white that I observed it immediately.”

Before her death, Saint Kateri promised her friends that she would continue to love and pray for them in heaven. Both Native Americans and settlers immediately began praying for her heavenly intercession. Several people, including a priest who attended her during her last illness, reported that the saint had appeared to them and many healing miracles were attributed to her. She is venerated as the Protectress of Canada and the patron saint of Native Americans and ecology.

See her icon here:

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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT KATERI TEKAKWITHA The Lily of the Mohawks and the Patron of Native Americans Feast Day: April 17 (Canada), July 14 (United States)

"My Jesus, I must risk everything with You."

The blood of martyrs is the seed of saints. Nine years after the Jesuits Isaac Jogues and Jean de Lelande were tomahawked by Iroquois warriors, a baby girl was born near the place of their martyrdom, Auriesville, New York.

Her mother was a Christian Algonquin, taken captive by the Iroquois and given as wife to the chief of the Mohawk clan, the boldest and fiercest of the Five Nations. When she was four, Tekakwitha lost her parents and little brother in a smallpox epidemic that left her disfigured and half blind.

She was adopted by an uncle, who succeeded her father as chief. He hated the coming of the Blackrobes—Jesuit missionaries—but could do nothing to them because a peace treaty with the French required their presence in villages with Christian captives. She was moved by the words of three Blackrobes who lodged with her uncle, but fear of him kept her from seeking instruction.

Tekakwitha refused to marry a Mohawk brave, and at 19 finally got the courage to take the step of converting. She was baptized with the name Kateri--Catherine--on Easter Sunday.

Now she would be treated as a slave. Because she would not work on Sunday, Kateri received no food that day. Her life in grace grew rapidly. She told a missionary that she often meditated on the great dignity of being baptized. She was powerfully moved by God’s love for human beings and saw the dignity of each of her people.

She was always in danger, for her conversion and holy life created great opposition. On the advice of a priest, Kateri stole away one night and began a 200-mile walking journey to a Christian Indian village at Sault St. Louis, near Montreal.

For three years she grew in holiness under the direction of a priest and an older Iroquois woman, giving herself totally to God in long hours of prayer, in charity, and in strenuous penance.

At 23, Kateri took a vow of virginity, an unprecedented act for an Indian woman whose future depended on being married. She found a place in the woods where she could pray an hour a day—and was accused of meeting a man there!

Her dedication to virginity was instinctive: Kateri did not know about religious life for women until she visited Montreal. Inspired by this, she and two friends wanted to start a community, but the local priest dissuaded her. She humbly accepted an 'ordinary' life.

She practiced extremely severe fasting as penance for the conversion of her nation.

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 1980 and canonized in 2012.

Source: Franciscan Media

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Fuck a saint, that’s how, find a little saint and fuck her over and over in some pleasant part of heaven, get right into her plastic altar, dwell in her silver medal, fuck her until she tinkles like a souvenir music box, until the memorial lights go on for free, find a little saintly faker like Teresa or Catherine Tekakwitha or Lesbia, whom prick never knew but who lay around all day in a chocolate poem, find one of these quaint impossible cunts and fuck her for your life, coming all over the sky, fuck her on the moon with a steel hourglass up your hole, get tangled in her airy robes, suck her nothing juices, lap, lap, lap, a dog in the ether, then climb down to this fat earth and slouch around the fat earth in your stone shoes, get clobbered by a runaway target, take the senseless blows again and again, a right to the mind, piledriver on the heart, kick in the scrotum, help! help! it’s my time, my second, my splinter of the shit glory tree, police, firemen! look at the traffic of happiness and crime, it’s burning in crayon like the akropolis rose!

— Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

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St. Joseph: Most Chaste Heart of Joseph? Sounds pretty asexual to me. I’m kidding I’m kidding, but I have a feeling he Gets It.

St. Andrew: I saw the guy’s skull, so.

St. Martin de Porres: I, too, feel very called to religious life but also barred from it for reasons beyond my choice and control* but I refuse to let that stop me, so I have a feeling he Gets It. (*Note: my reasons are not race and bigotry related, so I can’t exactly say that I Get It.)

St. Kateri Tekakwitha: She said “I’m going to be single forever” and is so valid for it.

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross: idk, she’s kind of followed me around. The first time I went to mass with my mom (in the most gorgeous chapel I’ve ever seen and likely ever will see) they were celebrating her feast day, and it’s stuck with me ever since.

St. Dennis: His feast day’s the day before my birthday, and one of my ancestral surnames means “Dennis’s son”.

St. Catherine of Siena: Do I need to explain?

St. Fieri of Flavortown: iykyk

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St. Kateri Tekakwitha

St. Kateri Tekakwitha, also known as the "Lily of the Mohawks," was born in 1656 in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, which is near present-day Auriesville, New York. She is the first Native American woman to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

Early Life

Kateri's birth name was Tekakwitha, which means "She who bumps into things." Her mother was an Algonquin Christian, and her father was a Mohawk chief. When Kateri was around four years old, her village was struck by a smallpox epidemic, which claimed the lives of her parents and younger brother. Kateri survived but was left with severe scars on her face and impaired eyesight.

Conversion and Faith

At the age of 19, Kateri converted to Christianity, taking the name "Kateri" in honor of St. Catherine of Siena. Her conversion was met with hostility from her relatives and the community, but she remained steadfast in her faith. She eventually fled to a Christian Native American village in Kahnawake, near Montreal, where she could practice her faith freely.

Devotion and Lifestyle

Kateri was known for her deep devotion to the Eucharist and her acts of penance. She led a life of prayer, fasting, and severe mortification, which inspired those around her. Despite her fragile health, she worked tirelessly to teach prayers to children and help the sick and elderly in the village.

Death and Legacy

St. Kateri Tekakwitha died on April 17, 1680, at the age of 24. It is said that her scars vanished upon her death, and her face became radiantly beautiful. Her final words were reported to be "Jesus, I love you."

Canonization

Kateri was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1980 and canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 21, 2012. She is celebrated as the patron saint of the environment, ecology, and Indigenous peoples.

Patronage and Feast Day

St. Kateri is venerated as the patron saint of the environment and ecology due to her deep connection with nature and her respectful treatment of all creation. Her feast day is celebrated on July 14 in the United States and Canada.

Influence and Inspiration

St. Kateri's life continues to inspire many people around the world, particularly Indigenous communities and those who work for environmental conservation. Her story is a testament to the strength of faith, the importance of cultural heritage, and the need to live harmoniously with nature.

How can I honor St. Kateri?

Honoring St. Kateri Tekakwitha can be a meaningful and fulfilling way to deepen your spiritual life and commitment to environmental stewardship. Here are several ways you can honor her:

Prayer and Devotion

Pray to St. Kateri: Recite prayers dedicated to her, such as the one mentioned earlier. You can also ask for her intercession in your prayers for environmental causes, personal needs, or the well-being of Indigenous peoples.

Celebrate Her Feast Day: On July 14 (in the United States and Canada), participate in Mass or a special prayer service in her honor. This is a great day to reflect on her life and virtues.

Create a Prayer Space: Set up a small altar or prayer space in your home with an image or statue of St. Kateri. Include items that represent nature, such as flowers, leaves, or stones, to remind you of her connection to the environment.

Environmental Stewardship

Participate in Environmental Activities: Get involved in local clean-up efforts, tree planting, or conservation projects. Dedicate your efforts to St. Kateri and her example of caring for creation.

Adopt Sustainable Practices: Make conscious choices to reduce waste, recycle, and conserve energy and water in your daily life. These small acts can collectively make a significant impact on the environment.

Support Environmental Organizations: Donate to or volunteer with organizations that work to protect the environment and promote sustainable living, especially those that also support Indigenous communities.

Cultural and Educational Efforts

Learn About Indigenous Cultures: Educate yourself about the history, culture, and contemporary issues of Indigenous peoples. Reading books, watching documentaries, and attending cultural events can deepen your understanding and appreciation.

Support Indigenous Communities: Purchase goods from Indigenous artisans, support Indigenous-led initiatives, and advocate for the rights and recognition of Indigenous peoples.

Teach Others: Share St. Kateri's story and her message of environmental stewardship with others. This can be done through social media, community presentations, or informal conversations.

Personal Reflection and Growth

Live Simply: Emulate St. Kateri's simple and humble lifestyle by focusing on what is essential and reducing excess in your life. This can help you grow spiritually and live in greater harmony with the environment.

Spend Time in Nature: Take time to appreciate and connect with the natural world. Go for walks, hike, or simply sit in a park, reflecting on the beauty of creation and how you can protect it.

Practice Gratitude: Regularly express gratitude for the gifts of nature and the environment. Keeping a gratitude journal focused on these blessings can help foster a deeper connection to the natural world.

By incorporating these practices into your life, you can honor St. Kateri Tekakwitha and carry forward her legacy of faith, simplicity, and care for creation.

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SAINT OF THE DAY (July 14)

On July 14, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American of North America to be canonized by the Catholic Church.

Known as the "Lily of the Mohawks," Kateri lived a life of holiness and virtue, despite obstacles and opposition within her tribe.

Kateri was born in Auriesville, New York, in 1656 to a Christian Algonquin woman and a pagan Mohawk chief.

When she was a child, a smallpox epidemic attacked her tribe and both her parents died. She was left with permanent scars on her face and impaired eyesight.

Her uncle, who had now become chief of the tribe, adopted her and her aunts began planning her marriage while she was still very young.

When three Jesuit fathers were visiting the tribe in 1667 and staying in the tent of her uncle, they spoke to her of Christ, and though she did not ask to be baptized, she believed in Jesus with an incredible intensity.

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 (Canada), 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 17 April 1680 at the age of 24.

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. Her body, enshrined in Caughnawaga, is visited by many pilgrims each year.

She was beatified as Catherine Tekakwitha by Pope John Paul II on 22 June 1980.

She was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on 21 October 2012.

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one day I'll actually reward myself with reading the case for catherine tekakwithas canonization. but not today

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Throughout the whole day they filed by her mat with their burdens.         -I stepped on a beetle. Pray for me. [...]         -I dreamed I was white. Pray for me.         -I let the deer die too slowly. Pray for me. [...]         -I'm 84. Pray for me.

Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers, pgs. 468-469

This part of the story is the retelling of Catherine Tekakwitha’s tragic and bizarre death. To summarize, after converting to Catholicism, she became preoccupied with the idea that she, being such a terrible sinner, needed to pay for her sins. To do this, she tortured herself physically. It started off with her friend Marie-Thérèse, another convert from the aboriginal lifestyle. They would, once a week, go out and take turns whipping each other. Catherine would never want the whipping to stop. It then continued, where she was inflicting pain on herself by starving herself, and weaving a thousand thorns inside of her bed and blanket. She would purposefully move around so that the thorns would wound her and she would start bleeding. Even after she was scratched, she would move again, just so she could open up her wounds again. This was how she was when, on her deathbed, many people came to her in hopes that once she got to heaven, especially since she suffered so much for God, she could pray for them and they would finally see their prayers answered. There are twenty-six prayer requests written down on these pages, but it says that “throughout the whole day” (pg. 468), people were coming to her with their own problems or guilt. I thought this part, where there is a continuous list of the various prayer requests, was touching. It really showed how vulnerable people were, and how scared they were of “not making it to heaven”. At least, this is my interpretation of it. They all came to her with guilty sayings, such as “I tortured a raccoon” (pg. 469), and it just shows how desperate these people were for forgiveness, or for confirmation that they were okay. Humans yesterday, today and tomorrow are hurting, and we are always trying to hold onto whatever hope we can find that may relieve us of this hurt. In these people’s case, it was Catherine Tekakwitha. In the main character’s case, it was also Catherine Tekakwitha. We see how he always turns to her in his mind as he goes through his daily sufferings, and as he deals with the deaths of his two friends. She, in my opinion, symbolizes hope in this story. Later on in the book, it is said that dirt from Catherine’s grave healed people of their diseases. When it was put close to them, their “pain stopped immediately” (pg. 479). In the main character’s case, Catherine Tekakwitha was what kept him from becoming overwhelmed with his guilt, or his loss, just like she helped these people confessing to her to overcome their guilt or loss.

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The Saint Who Bumped Into Things

An image of purity, courage, and prayer, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha was the first Native American woman to be canonized by the Catholic Church. Daughter of a Mohawk chief and an Algonquin Indian woman who had converted to Catholicism, she was born in in present-day New York in 1656. A smallpox epidemic in 1661-1663 left her an orphan, with a badly scarred face and impaired eyesight.

Because of her poor vision, Saint Kateri was named "Tekakwitha," which means "she who bumps into things.”

She was taken in by her uncle, who was bitterly opposed to Christianity. As a young girl, in accordance with Iroquois custom her foster family paired her with a young boy who they expected she would marry. However, Saint Kateri chose to dedicate her life to God.

When she was 18 she began instruction in the Catholic faith in secret, having come into contact with the Jesuit missionaries that frequented Mohawk villages after the French forces defeated the Mohawks. Her uncle finally relented and gave his consent for her to become a Christian, provided that she did not try to leave the Indian village. For joining the Catholic Church, the young girl was subjected to accusations of sorcery and promiscuity, and ridiculed and scorned by villagers who even threatened her life.

Taking the name Kateri (Catherine) at baptism, two years later she escaped to the Mission of St. Francis Xavier, a settlement of Christian Indians in Canada.

The village in Canada was called “the village of the praying Indians.” Here she was known for her gentleness, kindness, and good humor. On Christmas Day 1677 Saint Kateri made her First Holy Communion and on the Feast of the Annunciation in 1679 made a vow of perpetual virginity. She also offered herself to the Virgin Mary, asking Our Lady to accept her as a daughter.

Most of these early Indian converts were women, devoted to the Christian ideals of charity and asceticism. When they learned of nuns and convents, many wanted to form their own and created an an informal association of devout women. Saint Kateri taught prayers to children and worked with the elderly and sick. She would often go to Mass both at dawn and sunset and was known for her great devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Cross of Christ. A Jesuit priest quoted Saint Kateri as saying: “For a long time my decision on what I will do has been made. I have consecrated myself entirely to Jesus, son of Mary. I have chosen Him for my husband and He alone will take me for wife.”

During the last years of her life, she endured great suffering from tuberculosis. She died on April 17, 1680, shortly before her 24th birthday, and was buried in Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada. Her final words were "Jesus — Mary — I love you."

The Jesuit priest Fr. Cholenec later wrote: “This face, so marked and swarthy, suddenly changed about a quarter of an hour after her death, and became in a moment so beautiful and so white that I observed it immediately.”

Before her death, Saint Kateri promised her friends that she would continue to love and pray for them in heaven. Both Native Americans and settlers immediately began praying for her heavenly intercession. Several people, including a priest who attended her during her last illness, reported that the saint had appeared to them and many healing miracles were attributed to her. She is venerated as the Protectress of Canada and the patron saint of Native Americans and ecology.

The Monastery Icons icon of Saint Kateri is here: https://www.monasteryicons.com/product/saint-kateri-tekakwitha-icon-479/

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Seven years after the initial Lettres édifiantes article, the story first appeared as a freestanding book; moreover, this was a Spanish translation of Cholenec’s biography, and it was published not in Europe but in the New World. La gracia triunfante en la vida de Catharina Tegakovita, india iroquesa, appeared in 1724 in Mexico City, capital of the viceroyalty of New Spain, a city far older, richer, and more impressive than any of the little settlements then established in French or British North America. So remote from Mexico were New France and the lands of the Iroquois that hardly anyone there had heard of such places. The translator located them just east of New Mexico and the Apaches

I love hearing about how people understand the world when they dont have access to the sheer level of information we have here & now. its just so revealing its fascinating