Description: Laminated Holy Card of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (This is the only known portrait from life of Catherine Tekawitha, c. 1690, by Father Chauchetière) Plus 1" Silver Oxidized Medal of Saint Kateri. Condition is New. This exceptionally detailed die-cast medal, with St Kateri Tekakwitha on the front and PRAY FOR US on the back, is made in the region of Italy that produces the finest quality medals in the world. The silver oxidized finish is has been perfected for hundreds of years by the local Italian craftsmen, and remains unmatched in quality, beauty, and longevity throughout the world -a genuine silver plating with a 3-dimensional depth, and long-lasting brilliance. Measures approximately 1 inch in height - attached jump ring is included. St. Kateri is recently canonized Catholic saint. She was declared a saint by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. Kateri died at the age of 24 and was the first Native American to be declared a saint. She is the patron of ecology and the environment and her feast is celebrated on July 14. Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks, is a Catholic saint who was an Algonquin–Mohawk Laywoman. Born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, on the south side of the Mohawk River, she contracted smallpox in an epidemic; her family died and her face was scarred. She converted to Catholicism at age nineteen, when she was renamed Kateri, baptized in honor of Saint 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 in New France,now Canada. Tekakwitha Took a vow of perpetual virginity. Upon her death at the age of 24, witnesses said that minutes later her scars vanished 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 and the first to be canonized. Under the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, she was beatified in 1980 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.
Price: 5.5 USD
Location: South Dartmouth, Massachusetts
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