{"id":599,"date":"2021-03-03T13:54:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/?page_id=599"},"modified":"2021-07-07T10:35:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T15:35:36","slug":"biography-of-st-kateri","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/index.php\/home\/biography-of-st-kateri\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography of St. Kateri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ST. KATERI TEKAWITHA <\/strong>(1656 \u2013 1680)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"327\" height=\"438\" src=\"http:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/St_Kateri-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/St_Kateri-1.jpg 327w, https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/St_Kateri-1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/St_Kateri-1-260x348.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Feast Days:&nbsp; July 14 in USA, &nbsp;April 17 in Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daughter of a Christian Algonquin mother and pagan Mohawk chieftain father she was born in Auriesville, New York.&nbsp; Suffered facial disfigurement and impaired eyesight after smallpox epidemic which killed her parents and baby brother.&nbsp; Raised by her father\u2019s Mohawk relatives she was persecuted and ostracized for her Christian beliefs and eventually fled to a Christian settlement near Montreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kateri made her First Communion on Christmas, 1677.&nbsp; Known for her love for nature and the elderly, she died on Wednesday of Holy Week, April 17, 1680.&nbsp; Moments after her death witnesses testify to seeing her scarred face turn smooth and soft as a lily.&nbsp; Nicknamed \u201cLily of the Mohawks\u201d she was canonized by Pope Benedict on October 21, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Patroness of ecology, the environment, young adults and abused children.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Jul-11-St.-Kateri-Prayer-1024x906.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-998\" width=\"392\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Jul-11-St.-Kateri-Prayer-1024x906.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Jul-11-St.-Kateri-Prayer-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Jul-11-St.-Kateri-Prayer-768x679.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Jul-11-St.-Kateri-Prayer-1536x1359.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Jul-11-St.-Kateri-Prayer-260x230.jpg 260w, https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Jul-11-St.-Kateri-Prayer.jpg 1767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. KATERI TEKAWITHA (1656 \u2013 1680) Feast Days:&nbsp; July 14 in USA, &nbsp;April 17 in Canada Daughter of a Christian Algonquin mother and pagan Mohawk chieftain father she was born in Auriesville, New York.&nbsp; Suffered facial disfigurement and impaired eyesight after smallpox epidemic which killed her parents and baby brother.&nbsp; Raised by her father\u2019s Mohawk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/599\/revisions\/999"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}