Early portrait of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Today's saint life from Butler

Tuesday, July 14th

St. Kateri Tekakwitha

Kateri Tekakwitha was a Mohawk woman whose short life joined bodily suffering, pressure from her own community, Eucharistic devotion, virginity, and quiet charity into a hidden but luminous fidelity to Christ.

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The saint life above follows Butler's calendar. The Church observance below follows the traditional liturgical calendar, so the names may differ.

Church day: Saint Bonaventure, bishop, confessor and doctor of the ChurchRank: III classColor: White

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