“Blessed” Indian to be beatified
NZPA-Reuter Romej The first North American Indian candidate for canonisation will be beatified by Pope John Paul II in a ceremony at St Peter’s Basilica on June 22, the Vatican has said. Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk woman who died in 1680 at the age of 24, will be made a “blessed” of the[ Roman Catholic Church —i one step below possible) sainthood — together with four European missionaries in North and South America.
She was born in what is now New York state in 1656 of a Christian mother and a pagan chief of the Mohawk tribe.
According to Church Historians, her baptism in 1676 caused such opposition that she was forced to flee to a Christian Indian village near Montreal.
The “Catholic Encyclopaedia” says she lived an exemplary life of austerity and charity, and “her death at the age of 24 served as' an inspiration to the Indian community.” J)
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