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 ...

After her baptism, St. Kateri Tekakwitha ‘flowered among Native Americans in a life of innocence,’ and miracles were attributed to her even before her death. Stained-glass window depicting St. Kateri ...

VATICAN CITY — Some 80,000 pilgrims in flowered lei, feathered headdresses and other traditional garb flooded St. Peter's Square on Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI added seven more saints onto the roster ...

A mosaic of St. Kateri Tekakwitha is seen in the Trinity Dome at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. She was the first Native American woman canonized in ...

American Catholics have something in common when it comes to their Christian faith. This includes the veneration of Algonquin and Mohawk convert who became the first Native American saint. This was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman holds a painting representing Kateri Tekakwitha in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City on October 21, 2012. Pope ...

Stained glass depicting St. Kateri Tekakwitha, found in the Saint Stephen, Martyr Roman Catholic Church in Chesapeake, Virginia. (Credit: WikiCommons.) Listen This past week, the feast day of a fairly ...

EXETER, R.I. (WJAR) — For the past 31 years, the Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Church has been the place of worship for hundreds of parishioners across Washington County. On Sunday, there was a dual ...

Editor's note: In honor of St. Kateri Tekakwitha's feast day, we are promoting this story from 2012 about her canonization. Since 1997, Eleanor St. John has lived for the day when one of her greatest ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Sister Kateri Mitchell was born and raised on the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation along the St. Lawrence River. She grew up hearing stories about Kateri Tekakwitha, the 17th-century ...

KIM LAWTON, correspondent: This is the Grand Entry procession at the annual Tekakwitha Conference. Native American Catholics from more than 100 indigenous tribes across the US and Canada have gathered ...