Mohawk Saint Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits

Name: Mohawk Saint Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
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ISBN: 9780195309348

ISBN-10: 0195309340

ISBN-13: 9780195309348

Edition: N/A

Authors: Allan Greer

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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,…

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List price: $35.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/10/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 9.21" wide x 5.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836

Allan Greer is a Professor in the Department of History at McGill University.



Maps



Beautiful Death



Gandaouague: A Mohawk Childhood



Poitiers: The Making of a Jesuit Mystic



Kahnawake: A Christian Iroquois Community



Body and Soul



Catherine and Her Sisters



Curing the Afflicted



Virgins and Cannibals



Epilogue: "Our Catherine"


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