The Saint Kateri Tekakwitha National Shrine and Historic Site in New York honors the life of St. Kateri and the history of ...

The Saint Kateri Tekakwitha National Shrine has a schedule of special events planned for St. Kateri’s feast day on July 14. Bramble said they anticipate several hundred visitors for the feast ...

Sister Kateri Mitchell was born and raised on the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation along the St. Lawrence River. She grew up hearing stories about Kateri Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk woman who ...

The first ever Native American to be named a saint, Kateri Tekakwitha, died over 330 years ago, but her story still inspires and captivates, reports the BBC's Cordelia Hebblethwe.

Two of the new saints were Americans: Kateri Tekakwitha, the first American Indian saint from the United States, and Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th century Franciscan nun who cared for leprosy ...

11. St. Kateri Joined an Elite Community of Saints — Then Took It to A New Level. St. Kateri Tekakwitha was so exemplary in how she lived her faith that she was soon admitted to an intentional ...

“We’ve been praying every morning for this for 12 years,” said Msgr. Michael Slattery of St. Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Church in Santa Clarita.

Hundreds of people devoted to one of the Roman Catholic Church’s newest saints, Kateri Tekakwitha, today are visiting two shrines that honor the 17th-century Native American convert.

Two nuns hold images of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American to achieve sainthood, as they wait for the start of a canonization ceremony celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, in St. Peter's ...

Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th century convert to Catholicism known to many as the Lily of the Mohawks, will become St. Kateri Tekakwitha during a papal Mass Sunday morning at St. Peter’s in ...

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Church in Santa Clarita honored local first responders during a special mass on Saturday evening. Bishop Gerald Wilkerson began the service, while Saint Kateri ...

Some of these facts you may know. Others may surprise you. Here are the first 10 things you should know about St. Kateri Tekakwitha. 1. Without the Jesuit Martyrs, We’d Have No St. Kateri ...