Kateri Tekakwitha

thumb|Portrait of Kateri Tekakwitha (Claude Chauchetière) Kateri Tekakwitha (1656 – April 17, 1680) is a Catholic saint who was an Algonquin–Mohawk laywoman. Quotes [Last words] Jesus, I love you. Quoted in Pope John Paul II, Santa messa per la proclamazione di cinque nuovi beati, Vatican City, 22 June 1980. My God, save me from anyone who would like me to be his bride. Take it You the white lily of my virginity. It is yours, and yours will be forever. Quoted in Caterina Tekakwitha, la prima santa pellerossa d'America, famigliacristiana.it, 17 April 2021. Quotes about Leading a simple life, Kateri remained faithful to her love for Jesus, to prayer and to daily Mass. Her greatest wish was to know and to do what pleased God. She lived a life radiant with faith and purity. Kateri impresses us by the action of grace in her life in spite of the absence of external help and by the courage of her vocation, so unusual in her culture. In her, faith and culture enrich each other! May her example help us to live where we are, loving Jesus without denying who we are. Saint Kateri, Protectress of Canada and the first native American saint, we entrust to you the renewal of the faith in the first nations and in all of North America! May God bless the first nations! Benedict XVI, HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI (21 October 2012) Sweet, fragile but strong figure of a young woman who died at only twenty-four years of age: Kateri Tekakwitha, the "lily of the Mohawks", the Iroquois virgin who in the seventeenth century in North America was the first to renew the wonders of sanctity of Saint Scholastica, Saint Gertrude, Saint Catherine of Siena, Saint Angela Merici and Saint Rose of Lima, preceding along the path of love, her great spiritual sister, Therese of the Child Jesus. Pope John Paul II, Santa Messa per la proclamazione di cinque nuovi beati, 22 June 1980, Rome. External links Category:Catholics from the United States Category:Native Americans Category:Saints Category:Women from the United States Category:1656 births Category:1680 deaths Category:People from New York (state)