Saint Katherine Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks.pptx

St Kateri Tekakwitha, of the Mohawk tribe, the first native American Saint.

1. Saint Katherine Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks

2. EARLY CHILDHOOD Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 in Ossernenon (today Auriesville, New York)

3. Her mother, Kahenta was Catholic who had been captured in a raid and then assimilated into the Aloquin tribe

4. she received her name from her Mohawk people. It translates as "She who bumps into things

5. Kahenta had been baptized Catholic and educated by French missionaries in Trois-Rivières, east of Montreal

6. Her father was a Mohawk Chief (Kenneronkwa). The Mohawk were absorbing many captured natives of other tribes, particularly their competitors, the Huron

7. When she was four years old, her parents and brother died of smallpox. Kateri was also affected by the disease, which left her almost blind and badly scarred her face.

8. She was taken in by her father's sister and her husband, a chief of the Turtle Clan , who was strongly opposed to Christianity

9. French and Dutch colonists , were competing in the lucrative fur trade . The French attacked the Mohawk in present-day central New York in 1666. After driving the people from their homes, the French burned the three Mohawk villages .

10. Tekakwitha, around ten years old, fled with her new family to Caughnawaga (today Fonda, New York).

11. In 1667, her village was visited by the Jesuit missionaries Fathers Fremin, Bruyas and Pierron who deeply impressed her. From them, she received her first knowledge of Christianity.

12. she was a modest girl who avoided social gatherings

13. and covered her head because of the scars .

14. S he became skilled at traditional women's arts like making clothing, weaving mats, and preparing food.

15. She began to lead a life inspired by the example of Jesuit missionaries in 1674 .

16. She was instructed in religion Her uncle allowed her to be baptized by Jacques de Lamberville, as long as she remained in the village.

17. In the summer of 1669, several hundred Mohican warriors, attacked Caughnawaga. Tekakwitha, around 13 years old, joined other girls to help priest Jean Pierron tend to the wounded, bury the dead, and carry food and water

18. she was pressured to think about marriage around age thirteen, but she refused. When speaking to her confessor, she stated, "I can have no spouse but Jesus.“ - When she turned 17, around 1673, her adoptive mother and aunt tried to arrange her marriage to a young Mohawk man . Tekakwitha fled the cabin and hid in a nearby field

19. She received the name Kateri after Catherine of Siena. on Easter Sunday, April 18, 1676. at 19 years of age.

20. After her Baptism, Kateri lived a pious and faith-filled life,

21. She spent hours in prayer and fashioning crosses out of twigs.

22. Kateri did everything she could to stay holy in a secular society, which often caused minor conflicts with her longhouse residents

23. Her beliefs were met with ridicule, hostility and threats. She was h arassed , stoned , accused of sorcery, and threatened with torture in her home village , (Caughnawauga).

24. S he fled 200 miles (320 km) to the Christian Indian mission of St. Francis Xavier at Sault Saint-Louis, in Kahnawake, south of Montreal, Quebec.

25. she shared the longhouse of her older sister and her husband. She would have known other people in the longhouse who had migrated from their former village of Gandaouagué (Caughnawaga). Her mother's close friend, Anastasia Tegonhatsiongo, was clan matron of the longhouse. Anastasia and other Mohawk women introduced Tekakwitha to the regular practices of Christianity

26. in Kahnawake, she received her first Communion on Christmas Day 1677.

27. the accounts of Tekakwitha’s life written by de Lamberville and fellow missionaries say that i Kahnawake, Kateri was known for her faith and holiness. She taught prayers to children, cared for the elderly and the sick, and would often attend mass at sunrise and sunset. –

28. Tekakwitha was said to have put thorns on her sleeping mat and lain on them while praying for her relatives' conversion and forgiveness. Piercing the body to draw blood was a traditional practice of the Mohawk and other Haudenosaunee nations

29. She also made a vow of perpetual virginity on the Feast of the Annunciation in 1679 - she came to be known as the “Lily of the Mohawks” in recognition of her kindness, prayer, faith, and heroic suffering

30. Kateri’s health deteriorated in the last years of her life. She died of tuberculosis on April 17, 1680, shortly before her 24th birthday, and was buried at St. Francis Xavier Mission .

31. Her final words were: “Jesos Konoronkwa” (“Jesus, I love you”). Witnesses report that within minutes of her death, the smallpox scars vanished from her face, which then radiated with beauty

32. Fr. Cholenec wrote “her 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”

33. Fr. Chauchetière came to believe that Tekakwitha was a saint . In his biography of Kateri, he stressed her "charity, industry, purity, and fortitude .“ P. Cholenec praised her virginity.

34. Chauchetiére saw Catherine at her grave; he said she appeared in "baroque splendor; for two hours he gazed upon her " and "her face lifted toward heaven as if in ecstasy.

35. Tekakwitha purportedly appeared to three individuals in the weeks after her death; her mentor Anastasia Tegonhatsiongo, her friend Marie-Therèse Tegaiaguenta, and Chauchetière.

36. Anastasia said that, while crying over the death of her spiritual daughter, she looked up to see Catherine "kneeling at the foot" of her mattress, " holding a wooden cross that shone like the sun

37. Chauchetière had a chapel built near Kateri's gravesite. By 1684, pilgrimages had begun to honor her there

38. It is believed that since Kateri’s death many miracles have been performed through her intercession, with the sick being cured and many prayers being answered .

39. Kateri was declared Venerable by Pope Pius XII on Jan 3, 1943, and beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1980

40. Saint Kateri Tekakwitha was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 21, 2012, in Rome

41. In 2022, the Episcopal Church of the United States gave final approval to a feast dedicated to Kateri on 17 April on the liturgical calendar

42. SHRINES and DEVOTION - the National Shrine of St. Kateri Tekakwitha at the site of her Baptism in (Caughnawaga) Fonda , New York ,

43. the Kateri Centre at her burial site at the St. Francis Xavier Mission in Kahnawake, which today is in the Diocese of Saint-Jean-Longueuil,

44. the Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs at her birthplace in Auriesville, New York

45. Many churches are dedicated to her

46. After Tekakwitha's beatification in 1980, Paula E. Holmes, in the late 1990s, interviewed several elderly Native American women about their childhoods and hearing stories from their ancestors about Tekakwitha. She found that Kateri is "as part of their Indian familiar and familial heritage

47. DEVOTIONAL MEDALS IN HER HONOR

48. Joseph Clancy's play, The Princess of the Mohawks, was performed often by schoolchildren starting in the 1930s

49. American composer Nellie von Gerichten Smith (1871–1952) created an opera entitled Lily of the Mohawks: Kateri Tekakwitha (text by Edward C. La More)

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