Category:Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha

Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha or Blessed Catherine Tekakwitha (Mohawk: [ɡaderi deɡaɡwitha]; 1656 – April 17, 1680) was a Mohawk-Algonquian young lady from the Turtle clan of the Iroquois tribe in New York who converted to Catholicism, and has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.

She is also known as "The Lily of the Mohawks," the "Mohawk Maiden," the "Pure and Tender Lily," the "Flower among True Men," the "Lily of Purity", "The fairest flower that ever bloomed among red men," and "The New Star of the New World."

Her grave stone reads: "Kateri Tekakwitha Ownkeonweke Katsitsiio Teonsitsianekaron The fairest flower that ever bloomed among red men."