Kateri Tekakwitha: First Catholic Native American saint

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From Time:
Jesuit priest, Claude Chauchetiere, who examined the steps Kateri and some her peers took in the name of their faith:

‘They covered themselves with blood by disciplinary stripes with iron, with rods, with thorns, with nettles; they fasted rigorously, passing the entire day without eating. These fasting women toiled strenuously all day – in summer, working in the fields; in winter, cutting wood. (…) they put glowing coals between their tows, where the fire burned a hole in their flesh; they went bare-legged to make a long procession in the snows; they all disfigured themselves by cutting off their hair, in order not to be sought in marriage…’
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/19/kat ... can-saint/

Now why a highly psychoneurotic young girl that brin on her own death with her masochistic practices
became a saint" totally mystifies me.

As it totally mystifies me why Leonard Cohen was fascinated with her.

PS) A deeper view on Kateri Tekakwitha and her era in this essay by historian Nancy Shoemaker:
http://www.sjsu.edu/people/ruma.chopra/ ... /Wk3_C.pdf


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Masochistic practices - oh, isn't that what religion is about?!

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It was not Leonard Cohen who was fascinated by her, it was the narrator in his novel Beautiful Losers. Maybe some of you, here, fans, should form a club with this Chinese guy who wanted to know what was about in this book.

This said, I am performing the Telephone Dance (kinda Snoopy dance like in my version).

Ah... Sainthood is a mystery that no one can handle.

And now Ladies and Gentlemen... Elisapie!

She is so beautiful. A voice like silk.


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July 14
MEMORIAL OF SAINT KATERI TEKAKWITHA

Thinking of you today, Leonard.
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