RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Kateri Tekakwitha

1656 - 1680

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Kateri Tekakwitha (pronounced [ˈɡaderi deɡaˈɡwita] in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine ("Kateri" in Mohawk), and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Mohawk/Algonquin Catholic saint and virgin. Born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, in present-day New York, she contracted smallpox in an epidemic; her family died and her face was scarred. She converted to Catholicism at age 19. She took a vow of perpetual virginity, left her village, and moved for the remaining five years of her life to the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake, just south of Montreal. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kateri Tekakwitha is the 652nd most popular religious figure (up from 1,810th in 2019), the 781st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,516th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 652 out of 3,187. Before her are Umm Kulthum bint Ali, Junayd of Baghdad, Henry Molaison, Maudgalyayana, Baal Shem Tov, and Ramla bint Abi Sufyan. After her are Antipope Clement VII, Philemon, Peter Lombard, Vinko Puljić, Macarius of Egypt, and Hans Küng.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1656, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 3. Before her are Edmond Halley, and Marin Marais. After her are Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas de Largillière, Guillaume Dubois, Robert de Cotte, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Ferdinand de Marsin. Among people deceased in 1680, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 5. Before her are Gian Lorenzo Bernini, François de La Rochefoucauld, Athanasius Kircher, and Shivaji. After her are Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, Nicolas Fouquet, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Willem Claesz. Heda, Jan Swammerdam, Samuel Butler, and Ferdinand Bol.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 781 out of 20,380. Before her are Florence Griffith Joyner (1959), Robert W. Holley (1922), Carrie Fisher (1956), Barbara Liskov (1939), Michael DeBakey (1908), and Albert Ellis (1913). After her are Rod Steiger (1925), Howard Hawks (1896), James Ivory (1928), Keith Jarrett (1945), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), and William Alfred Fowler (1911).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 8. Before her are Joseph Smith (1805), Brigham Young (1801), Charles Taze Russell (1852), Maria Branyas (1907), Billy Graham (1918), and Henry Molaison (1926). After her are Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930), John Mott (1865), Timothy M. Dolan (1950), Raymond Leo Burke (1948), William Miller (1782), and Seán Patrick O'Malley (1944).

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