2. EARLY LIFE
Born in 1656 to an
Algonquin Catholic
woman and a Mohawk
Chief.
Entire Family Killed at
age of four, do to
smallpox outbreak.
Adopted by uncle, who
is also a Mohawk chief
3. EARLY LIFE CONTINUED
At age eight she is
promised to a young
Mohawk boy.
Does not want to be
married because she
wants to dedicate her life
to God.
At age ten her village is
attacked be a French
and Indian war party.
Moves to Caughnawaga
were she lives for the
next ten years.
4. CONVERSION
When Kateri is eighteen
a Jesuit
Missionary, named
Father de
Lamberville, establishes
a Chapel within the
Village.
Kateri is Baptized at the
age of twenty by Father
de Lamberville on Easter
Sunday.
She is given the name
Catherine, which is
Kateri in Iroquois.
5. THE ESCAPE
In July 1677 Kateri
leaves Caughnawaga
to escape persicution
in her village.
She goes to a Catholic
Mission for Catholic
Native
Americans, called St.
Francis Xavier at Sault
Saint-Louis, near
Montreal.
6. LIFE IN THE MISSION
Kateri would help the
sick and poor.
She would fashion
wooden crosses and put
them in the woods to
remind her to pray to
God.
She told stories about
the Life of Jesus Christ
to people.
March 25, 1679: Kateri
makes her vow of
Perpetual Virginity.
7. DEATH
Kateri dies in 1680 at the
age of 24, do to health
problems.
Kateri’s final words
were, “Jesus, I love
You.”
Her face is miraculously
cleared of pox
marks, that she received
as a child during the
smallpox epidemic in
Ossernenon .
8. PRINCIPLES TO LEARN FROM KATERI
Kateri dedicated her
Life to serving God by
taking care of His
children through
example of
prayer, good
deeds, teaching about
Jesus Christ, helping
the sick and poor, and
taking a vow of
perpetual virginity.
9. EXTRA INFORMATION
Kateri Tekakwitha was
declared Blessed by
the Catholic Church in
1980 by Pope John
Paul II.
She is being
Canonized a Saint on
October 21, 2012.
