Kateri Tekawitha

Kateri was the daughter of a Christian Algonquin Native American in what is now upstate New York. She was orphaned at a young age, both parents died of small poxs. When she was 15yrs Kateri was kidnapped and married offto a pagan chief of the Mohawks. The tribe was not accepting of her Christian beliefs. Kateri left the tribe and walked over two hundred miles through the wilderness to a Jesuit settlement. She than pledged her life to Jesus and administered to the sick and poor. In 1980 was sainted by the Catholic church.