Kateri Tekakwitha Project Oral History Collection.

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Kateri Tekakwitha Project Oral History Collection.

Records of a Marquette University oral history project focusing on American Indian prayer and religious devotions relating to Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th century Mohawk convert to Catholicism and a candidate for sainthood. The collection is comprised of interview recordings and transcripts, photographs, and field notes documenting American Indians and significant others who have been involved with Catholic Indian missions, parishes, and schools in Arizona, New Mexico, and South Dakota. The interviews include personal histories and descriptions of the respondents' religious beliefs and practices from both the Catholic and their respective tribal traditions.

300 photographic prints with negatives.

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Tekakwitha, Kateri, Saint, 1656-1680

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Kateri Tekakwitha (pronounced [ˈɡaderi deɡaˈɡwita] in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (born 1656, Ossernenon, New York – died April 17, 1680, Kahnawake (near Montreal), Quebec, Canada), was a Catholic saint and virgin who was an Algonquin–Mohawk. Born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, on the south side of the Mohawk River in present-day New York State, she contracted smallpox in an epidemic; her family died and her face was...

Catholic Church

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During much of Doctor José Gaspar de Francia's dictatorship (1814-1840), Paraguay was without a bishop and the church was harrassed. From the description of Libro de providencias, ordenes, y autos : por Dn. Juan Antonio Riveras, cura rector de la parrequial de la Villeta : manuscript, 1804-1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612746619 An antiphonary is a book containing sacred vocal music, both the antiphons of the breviary, and the musical notes. An antiphon it...