Mohawk Saint : Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits /
"The daughter of an 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 Ameri...
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Materialtyp: | Bok |
Språk: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Innehållsförteckning:
- Beautiful death
- Gandaouagué : a Mohawk childhood
- Poitiers : the making of a Jesuit mystic
- Kahnawake : a Christian Iroquois community
- Body and soul
- Catherine and her sisters
- Curing the afflicted
- Virgins and cannibals
- Epilogue : "our Catherine."