Kateri Tekakwitha, Mohawk woman, to be canonized as saint

Monday, January 9, 2012  

Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk woman who lived in the 1600s, will become a saint.

Tekakwitha has been credited with numerous miracles. But it was the curing of a Lummi Nation boy, Jake Finkbonner, of a flesh-eating virus that led Pope Benedict XVI to approve canonization for Tekakwitha.

The ceremony is expected to take place this year. Tekakwitha is the first Native woman to achieve sainthood.

Get the Story:
Kateri Tekakwitha's Sainthood (National Catholic Register 1/9)
Native woman to become first American Indian saint (The Circle 1/9)

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