(circa 1656-1680)

Patron of the environment
and people who have lost their parents

Kateri Tekakwitha was the daughter of a Mohawk. She was orphaned at the age of four by a smallpox epidemic which also left her scarred. Missionaries visited her village when she was 11 and she heard them talk about Jesus. So moved by their visit, she traveled through 200 miles of wilderness to find the Christian Native American village of Sault-Sainte-Marie. There, she became a devoted Christian and provided care for the aged and sick. She is known as “the lily of the Mohawk.”