1. The First Native American Saint
KATERI TEKAKWITHA

2. EARLY LIFE
 Born in 1656 to an
Algonquin Catholic
woman and a Mohawk
Chief.
 Entire Family Killed at
age of four, do to
smallpox outbreak.
 Adopted by uncle, who
is also a Mohawk chief

3. EARLY LIFE CONTINUED
 At age eight she is
promised to a young
Mohawk boy.
 Does not want to be
married because she
wants to dedicate her life
to God.
 At age ten her village is
attacked be a French
and Indian war party.
 Moves to Caughnawaga
were she lives for the
next ten years.

4. CONVERSION
 When Kateri is eighteen
a Jesuit
Missionary, named
Father de
Lamberville, establishes
a Chapel within the
Village.
 Kateri is Baptized at the
age of twenty by Father
de Lamberville on Easter
Sunday.
 She is given the name
Catherine, which is
Kateri in Iroquois.

5. THE ESCAPE
 In July 1677 Kateri
leaves Caughnawaga
to escape persicution
in her village.
 She goes to a Catholic
Mission for Catholic
Native
Americans, called St.
Francis Xavier at Sault
Saint-Louis, near
Montreal.

6. LIFE IN THE MISSION
 Kateri would help the
sick and poor.
 She would fashion
wooden crosses and put
them in the woods to
remind her to pray to
God.
 She told stories about
the Life of Jesus Christ
to people.
 March 25, 1679: Kateri
makes her vow of
Perpetual Virginity.

7. DEATH
 Kateri dies in 1680 at the
age of 24, do to health
problems.
 Kateri’s final words
were, “Jesus, I love
You.”
 Her face is miraculously
cleared of pox
marks, that she received
as a child during the
smallpox epidemic in
Ossernenon .

8. PRINCIPLES TO LEARN FROM KATERI
 Kateri dedicated her
Life to serving God by
taking care of His
children through
example of
prayer, good
deeds, teaching about
Jesus Christ, helping
the sick and poor, and
taking a vow of
perpetual virginity.

9. EXTRA INFORMATION
 Kateri Tekakwitha was
declared Blessed by
the Catholic Church in
1980 by Pope John
Paul II.
 She is being
Canonized a Saint on
October 21, 2012.

10. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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11. BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTINUED
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12. BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTINUED
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