Feast of Blessed Kateri Takakwitha, July 14

 

Blessed Kateri Takakwitha was born in 1656 to a Catholic Algonquin mother and a Mohawk father in New York. Her mother died when Kateri was 4 years old, and the smallpox that killed her mother ravaged Kateri's face. After she was baptized at the age of 20 she would rise every day and wait for the chapel to open at 4AM and would stay in the chapel until the last Mass was said.

Kateri died at the age of 24.

The portrait was painted by Father Chaucetiere sometime between 1682 and 1693.

She is called "The Lily of the Mohawks", even though I would think that "Lily of the ALgonquin" would probably be more accurate.

HEY! THIS IS MY 600TH POST! My fir st post was November 10, 2006. If my math is right, that means I've averaged about 18 posts per month.