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Mohawk Saint : Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits /

The daughter of a 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 Americans an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greer, Allan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."