Relic of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Plus a Laminated Holy Card of Kateri

Description

Laminated Holy Card of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (
This is the o
nly known portrait from life of Catherine Tekawitha, c. 1690, by Father Chauchetière)
Plus a relic of the Lily of the Mohawks, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. The relic is encased in a 7/8" silver oxidized medal made in Italy.
Saint
Kateri Tekakwitha
, given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine and
informally known
as Lily of the Mohawks, is a Catholic saint who was an Algonquin–
Mohawk Laywoman
. Born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, on the south side of
the Mohawk
River, she contracted smallpox in an epidemic; her family died and
her face
was scarred. She converted to Catholicism at age nineteen, when she
was renamed
Kateri, baptized in honor of Saint Catherine of Siena. Refusing
to marry
, she left her village and moved for the remaining five years of her
life to
the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake, south of Montreal in New France, now Canada.
Tekakwitha Took
a vow of perpetual virginity. Upon her death at the age of 24,
witnesses said
that minutes later her scars vanished and her face appeared radiant
and beautiful
. Known for her virtue of chastity and mortification of the flesh,
as well
as being shunned by some of her tribe for her religious conversion
to Catholicism
, she is the fourth Native American to be venerated in the
Catholic Church
and the first to be canonized.
Under
the pontificate
of Pope John Paul II, she was beatified in 1980 and canonized
by Pope
Benedict XVI at Saint Peter's Basilica on 21 October 2012.Various
miracles and
supernatural events are attributed to her intercession.