Did you know St. Kateri Tekakwitha is the patron saint of Indigenous Peoples AND Camp Abbey right here in the Archdiocese of New Orleans? Celebrate her memorial today and learn more about her life at https://nolacatholic.org/news/memorial-of-st-kateri-tekakwitha.

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Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha

Known as the “Lily of the Mohawks”, Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 to a Mohawk chief and a Christian Algonquin woman. When she was four years old, a smallpox outbreak killed many in her village. Her parents and brother … Continue reading