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Kahnawake, Canada

WHAT HAPPENED:
Kateri Tekhawitha, a 17th-century Mohawk Indian woman who converted to Catholicism, died today.

She was made venerable in 1943 by Pope Pius ABBR>XII, the first of three steps to sainthood.

Pope John Paul II beatified her in 1980, the 300th anniversary of her death.

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