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She was known as Lily of the Mohawks, or the Pocahontas of the Catholic Church. But on  Sunday, Kateri Tekakwitha went down in history as the first Native American saint.<\/p>\n<p>Born more than 300 years ago in the Mohawks village of Ossernion &#8211; today Ausierville, forty miles from Albany NY &#8211; she was one of seven people canonized by Pope Benedict XVI Sunday in an open-air ceremony held in Saint Peter\u2019s Square. <\/p>\n<p>One of the remaining six was also American: Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th century Franciscan nun who cared for leprosy patients in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Kateri had a short life \u2013 she died at 24 \u2013 and yet, as for most saints, her devotion to Christianity, sacrifices and \u201cheroic virtue\u201d were so inspirational that her legacy survived for generations  <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/10\/21\/14591532-kateri-tekakwitha-named-first-native-american-saint-in-vatican-ceremony\">read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegasbuffetclub.com\">Visit the main pages of LasVegasBuffetClub.Com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kateri Tekakwitha named first Native American saint in Vatican ceremony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1169,1167,1166,1170,1168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7326,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions\/7326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}