St. Kateri Tekakwitha, pray for Canada

In Canada today the liturgy celebrates the memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha. Here's her life story from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops' website: Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656. Her mother was a member of the Algonquin First Nation and her father was an Iroquois chief. Her birth took place in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon (today Auriesville, New York). Her mother had lived with French settlers in Trois-Rivières and was Christian. When Kateri was four, a smallpox epidemic swept through Ossernenon. It killed her mother, father and younger brother and left Kateri with impaired vision and a scarred complexion. An uncle and some aunts took her in and raised her. Her eyes were hyper-sensitive to light, so people named her Tekakwitha', meaning 'she who gropes her way' or 'she who bumps into things.' In 1666, French troops were sent out to subdue the Mohawks, and with the people of her village Kateri spent a winter hiding out in the forest. They stayed on the north bank of …