Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha will be the first Native American saint when she is canonized by Pope Benedict XVI this year. As Kateri Tekakwitha lay on her deathbed, adorned in her finest clothing in ...

St. Kateri is the patron of Native Americans and people in exile, as well as patron of ecology and the environment. Her feast day is July 14. This portrait was painted around 1696 by Father Claude ...

The first ever Native American saint has been canonised by the Roman Catholic Church in a ceremony at the Vatican. Kateri Tekakwitha - sometimes known as Lily of the Mohawks - died more than 300 years ...

Kateri Tekakwitha - sometimes known as Lily of the Mohawks - died more than 300 years ago, but is thought by some to have performed a miracle as recently as 2006. "It's a third-class relic," says gift ...