The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Kateri Tekakwitha
(gädäl´ dkhäkhw´thschwa;, –dl´ dgäkw´tä) (KEY) or Catherine Tekakwitha, 1656–80, Native American holy woman known as the Lily of the Mohawks, b. Ossernenon (now Auriesville, N.Y.). She was the daughter of a Mohawk chief and a captured Algonquin Christian, she was baptized a Roman Catholic in 1676 by a Jesuit missionary. Her tribespeople jeered and stoned her for her adopted faith, and she eventually went to a missionary settlement in Canada. Piety led her to the severest asceticism. She was beatified in 1980.
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