 Kateri Tekawitha and St.
Frances Xavier Cabrini
Venerable Kateri Tekawitha, the "Lily of the Mohawks," was born in 1656 and
baptized by a Jesuit Missionary at age 19. Because of this, she had to flee from her home
to a Christian Indian village. Until her death at 24 in 1680, she led a life of purity and
charity among the Iroquois. Biographical data, collected by three missionaries who knew
her led to her beatification in 1932.
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of
Codogno, Italy in 1880, extended her work to North America in 1889 at the direction of
Pope Leo XIII. She began her work among the Italian immigrants by founding an orphanage at
West Park on the Hudson River. Among her other foundations were the Columbus Hospitals in
New York and Chicago. She also carried her work to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil
and Argentina. She died in Chicago in 1917 and, in 1946, was the first citizen of the
United States to be canonized.
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