Tekakwitha, Saint. Kateri b. 1656 d. April 17, 1680 Roman Catholica Religious Figure. Born to a Christian Algonquin and a Mohawk chief, she was orphaned in a smallpox epidemic which also left her pockmarked and nearly blind. At the age of twenty she asked to be baptized by missionary Jesuits. Her family persecuted her for her conversion to Christianity and her refusal to marry, causing her to flee almost three hundred miles to the Saint Francois-Xavier Mission near Montreal. She lived there for four years and was known for her great faith and...[Read More] Saint Francis-Xavier Mission, Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada
b. 1656 d. April 17, 1680