St. Kateri Tekakwitha-Saint Martin de Tours Catholic Church - Martinville LA
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Don.Morfe
N 30° 07.386 W 091° 49.734
15R E 612814 N 3333004
A statue of St. Kateri Tekakwitha is in the back of Saint Martin de Tours Catholic Church in Martinville LA. The bronze plaque says Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha, photographed by me in 2008. She was canonized at a later date, October 21, 2012.
Waymark Code: WM16G5W
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 07/25/2022
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She was canonized on October 21, 2012 in Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI. When one is canonized then they have the title Saint.
From Wikipedia
"Kateri Tekakwitha (pronounced ['gaderi dega'gwita] in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Catholic saint and virgin who was an Algonquin–Mohawk. Born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, on the south side of the Mohawk River in present-day New York State, she contracted smallpox in an epidemic; her family died and her face was scarred. She converted to Catholicism at age nineteen, when she was baptized and given the Christian name Kateri in honor of Catherine of Siena. Refusing to marry, she left her village and moved for the remaining five years of her life to the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake, south of Montreal on the St. Lawrence River in New France, now Canada.
Kateri Tekakwitha took a vow of perpetual virginity. Upon her death at the age of 24, witnesses said that her scars vanished minutes later, and her face appeared radiant and beautiful. Known for her virtue of chastity and mortification of the flesh, as well as being shunned by some of her tribe for her religious conversion to Catholicism, she is the fourth Native American to be venerated in the Catholic Church.
She was beatified in 1980 by Pope John Paul II, and canonized by Pope Benedict XVI at Saint Peter's Basilica on 21 October 2012. Various miracles and supernatural events are attributed to her intercession."
Kateri Tekakwitha
Associated Religion(s): Catholic
Statue Location: Inside Saint Martin de Tours Catholic Church - Martinville LA
Entrance Fee: "free".
Website: [Web Link]
Artist: Not listed
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Visit Instructions:
Take a picture of the statue. A waymarker and/or GPSr is not required to be in the image but it doesn't hurt.