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Title:
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MOHAWK SAINT
CATHERINE TEKAKWITHA AND THE JESUITS |
By: |
Allan Greer |
Format: |
Paperback |

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ISBN 10: |
0195309340 |
ISBN 13: |
9780195309348 |
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Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
Pub. date: |
1 August, 2006 |
Pages: |
272 |
Synopsis: |
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, aiming to capture the spiritual power of the newcomers from across the sea. Her story intersects with that of Claude Chauchetiere, a French Jesuit of mystical tendencies who came to America hoping to rescue savages from sin and paganism. But it was Claude himself who needed help to face down his own despai |
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2 maps, 17 halftones |
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US |
Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
Prizes: |
Winner of Winner of the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Society for French |
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