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Mohawk Saint - Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits (Paperback)
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Mohawk Saint - Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits (Paperback)
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The daughter of a Algonquin mother and an Iroquois father,
Catherine/Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680) has become known over the
centuries as a Catholic convert so holy that, almost immediately
upon her death, she became the object of a cult. Today she is
revered as a patron saint by Native Americans and the patroness of
ecology and the environment by Catholics more generally, the first
Native North American proposed for sainthood.
Tekakwitha was born at a time of cataclysmic change, as Native
Americans of the northeast experienced the effects of European
contact and colonization. A convert to Catholicism in the 1670s,
she embarked on a physically and mentally grueling program of
self-denial, aiming to capture the spiritual power of the newcomers
from across the sea. Her story intersects with that of Claude
Chauchetiere, a French Jesuit of mystical tendencies who came to
America hoping to rescue savages from sin and paganism. But it was
Claude himself who needed help to face down his own despair. He
became convinced that Tekakwitha was a genuine saint and that
conviction gave meaning to his life. Though she lived until just
24, Tekakwitha's severe penances and vivid visions were so
pronounced that Chauchetiere wrote an elegiac hagiography shortly
after her death.
With this richly crafted study, Allan Greer has written a dual
biography of Tekakwitha and Chauchetiere, unpacking their cultures
in Native America and in France. He examines the missionary and
conversion activities of the Jesuits in Canada, and explains the
Indian religious practices that interweave with converts' Catholic
practices. He also relates how Tekakwitha's legend spread through
the hagiographies and to areas ofthe United States, Canada, Europe,
and Mexico in the centuries since her death. The book also explores
issues of body and soul, illness and healing, sexuality and
celibacy, as revealed in the lives of a man and a woman, from
profoundly different worlds, who met centuries ago in the remote
Mohawk village of Kahnawake.
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