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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Kateri Tekakwitha

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 (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Catholic saint and virgin who was an Algonquin–Mohawk. Born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, in present-day New York State, she contracted smallpox in an epidemic; her family died and her face was scarred. She converted to Catholicism at age nineteen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kateri Tekakwitha has received more than 1,376,684 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Kateri Tekakwitha is the 1,700th most popular religious figure (down from 1,517th in 2019), the 3,555th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,525th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 1,700 out of 2,238Before her are Adolf Bertram, Samuel Wilson, Gjon Buzuku, Benjamin I of Constantinople, Frederick William Franz, and Theodore Romzha. After her are Sebastiano Baggio, Isidore of Kiev, Jacopo Sadoleto, Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, Manuel Monteiro de Castro, and Kassapa Buddha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1656, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 11Before her are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas de Largillière, Robert de Cotte, Guillaume Dubois, and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer. After her are Ferdinand de Marsin, François Le Fort, and Guru Har Krishan. Among people deceased in 1680, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 29Before her are Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Peter Lely, and Frans Post. After her are Marco Uccellini, Symeon of Polotsk, Pierre-Paul Riquet, Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp, Yun Hyu, and Wang Shimin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 3,555 out of 18,182Before her are Paul Gleason (1939), Brian Herbert (1947), Grote Reber (1911), Bernie Mac (1957), Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977), and Frederick William Franz (1893). After her are Jean Peters (1926), William Baumol (1922), Ahmad Jamal (1930), Christopher Meloni (1961), Marsha Hunt (1917), and Lou Henry Hoover (1874).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Kateri Tekakwitha ranks 23Before her are David Wilkerson (1931), William Levada (1936), Raymond Leo Burke (1948), Nathan Homer Knorr (1905), Samuel Wilson (1766), and Frederick William Franz (1893). After her are Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919), Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930), Fulton J. Sheen (1895), Don Alden Adams (1925), Squanto (1585), and Bill W. (1895).