Birthdate: 1656 AD
Birthplace: Auriesville, New York, United States
Died: April 17, 1680
Kateri Tekakwitha, also known as the Lily of the Mohawks, was a Mohawk Catholic saint who contracted smallpox as a child, leaving her scarred. At the age of nineteen, she converted to Catholicism and took a vow of perpetual virginity. She lived out the rest of her life in the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake. Kateri’s piety and devotion led to her beatification in 1980 and canonization in 2012 by the Catholic Church.
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