There are thousands of saints who all lived amazing and virtuous lives, and we can only pick one for Confirmation. The Saint who had the deepest impact on my heart and the one I picked was Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. She was a marvelous women who did only what was right by God. Saint Kateri was the first Native American that was recognized by the Catholic church and I have Native American in my blood going way back. Saint Kateri is important to me because she is an amazing role model, and I feel as if I can connect with her the most. Kateri is very outstanding women; she is very strong in the way she lives her life. Kateri is very connected with nature and the lives around her, which I am also.
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha was born and lived most of her life in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon which would be in present day New York. Saint Kateri lived a decently long life from being born in 1656, and lived twenty-four years, dying in 1680. Saint Kateri’s father was the chief of the Mohawk village while her mother was in the Algonquin tribe. The Mohawks (Kateri’s father's tribe) captured the Algonquin (her mother's tribe), but
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Saint Kateri’s mother and father had fallen in love and gotten married. All of Saint Kateri’s intermediate family including herself had caught the smallpox virus (a form of the chickenpox.) Saint Kateri was the only one to live through the virus outbreak in her family. Saint Kateri’s Uncle, the new Mohawk chief, and her aunt then had taken her in to raise. Kateri was only four when the disease spread across her family, and still only four when her family died. After Saint Kateri had gotten over the smallpox she was mostly seen with cloth covering her face and body to hide the scarring that the pox have left on her body. Saint Kateri was a skilled worker around the village, and didn’t mind doing the work that she had to do. Saint Kateri’s adopted parents (her uncle and aunt) would propose people for her to marry, but Saint Kateri would not marry anyone. When Kateri was nineteen years old she converted to being Catholic, and from there she said that Jesus Christ is the only person she will ever marry. People that lived around Saint Kateri did not like the idea that she said she was married to God, and started saying that it was sourcery. Kateri left her village so that she would not be killed by any of the people in her tribe. Although she had left the tribe the Mohawks would still try to find Kateri. Saint Kateri would pray often that the Mohawks would also convert to Catholicism, so they could all understand why she did what she did.
Also, now left the village Saint Kateri would put thorns on her bed, fast often, and one time she had burned herself; so that she would live like Jesus. Saint Kateri was known to be very devoted to God, and do what she thought God would appreciate. After all of the suffering Saint Kateri put herself through made her become sickly and that's when she had died only five years after she had converted. An interesting fact is that Saint Kateri’s shrine is where Kateri was baptised. Also, she was baptised on an Easter Sunday, on April 6, 1676. Kateri's last words were, “Jesus, I love you.” Saint Kateri Tekakwitha became a Saint because she did what was right by God, and stood up for what she knew was
right. Saint Kateri Tekakwitha is a patron Saint of environment and ecology. Kateri was the first ever Native American to be recognized by the Catholic Church. Her feast day was set on July 14th. Saint Kateri was beatified by Pope Paul the second and was canonized by Pope Benedict the sixteenth. Even Kateri has died in 1680 she was not canonized until 2012. There are many ways anyone could live their life like Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. One way I can live my life like Saint Kateri is to stand up for what I believe in, even if the people around you do not believe in what you do. Something else I can do to live like Saint Kateri is to help the people around me believe that God is real and there's only one true God. Another way to live like Kateri is that even if something bad happens to me that I'm ashamed of I shouldn’t hide but do good like helping other people and knowing that God will always be there for me. I picked Saint Kateri Tekakwitha because she is the patron of environment and ecology, and I love being outside in the environment and I think is important for us to take care of our environment and do the work we have to do to make it better. Also, Saint Kateri was the first Native American Saint and I feel like I am connected to her a little bit that way because I have Native American blood in me. Saint Kateri is a good role model for us catholics because she truly loved God with all of her heart, and she stood up for what she thought was truly right even though she was taught something else and grew up with the people around her not believing in that. We as Catholics should do the same thing standing up for are believe and loving God more than anything.
St. Kateri Tekakwitha, who is also known as “Lily of the Mohawks”, “Genevieve of New France”, and “Pocahontas of the Catholic Church”, was born approximately in the year 1656 near Auriesville, New York, into the Mohawk tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy. Due to her being born such a long time ago, some details about her early life are uncertain. Her father was a mighty and well-respected Mohawk warrior, and some even suspect that he was chief of the tribe. Tekakwitha’s mother’s background is almost completely unknown. Some speculate that she was a Christian Algonquin, who was captured by an Iroquois, but saved by Tekakwitha’s father.
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