'Pocahontas of the Catholic Church' to become first American Indian saint - Telegraph

'Pocahontas of the Catholic Church' to become first American Indian saint - Telegraph: "Kateri Tekakwitha, whose life in colonial America during the 17th century was marked by tribal conflict, dispossession and illness, was known as "Lily of the Mohawks".
She was born in 1656 in Ossernenon, now the town of Auriesville in upstate New York, on the banks of the Mohawk River.
Her mother, who was from the Algonquin tribe, was kidnapped from her family during a war party raid and was given in marriage to a Mohawk chief.
She was converted to Catholicism by French Jesuit priests but encountered hostility from her husband and his tribe towards the so-called “black robes”, as the missionaries were known.
As a child Kateri survived smallpox, leaving her with pock marks on her face and weakened eyesight."