{"id":25703,"date":"2010-07-14T06:46:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T10:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/blessed-kateri-tekakwitha-1\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T10:46:12","slug":"blessed-kateri-tekakwitha-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/blessed-kateri-tekakwitha-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Bl%20Katerit%20Tekakwitha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bl Katerit Tekakwitha.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/07\/Bl%20Katerit%20Tekakwitha-thumb-250x358-6927.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"358\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (1656 &#8211; 1680), is known popularly as the &#8220;Lily of the Mohawks&#8221; and the &#8220;Genevi&egrave;ve of New France.&#8221; Kateri was born in the Mohawk area of Ossemenon in New York State, the daughter of a Mohawk warrior and a Catholic Algonquin woman whom he had saved from captivity at the hands of the Iroquois. By the time she four years old smallpox killed her parents and her brother; she was left her scarred and with impaired eyesight. <\/p>\n<p>Adopted by her uncle, the chief of the Turtle clan, and Kateri&nbsp; had many offers of marriage. The Jesuit missionaries&nbsp; (the Black Robes) gave some knowledge of the Catholic faith to Kateri that gave her the desire to live life not only as a Christian but as a virgin: a heroic determination at the time. However,&nbsp; Kateri&nbsp; was not baptized until she was 20. Because of her virtue she experienced persecution and death threats, she fled to the established Christian community at Kahnawake in Qu&eacute;bec. Observers testify that Kateri advanced in communio with God taking on bodily mortifications with intense prayer; she died at the age of 24. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kateri_Tekakwitha\">Kateri Tekakwitha<\/a> was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 June 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (1656 &#8211; 1680), is known popularly as the &#8220;Lily of the Mohawks&#8221; and the &#8220;Genevi&egrave;ve of New France.&#8221; Kateri was born in the Mohawk area of Ossemenon in New York State, the daughter of a Mohawk warrior and a Catholic Algonquin woman whom he had saved from captivity at the hands of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/blessed-kateri-tekakwitha-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}