Friday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, 1656-1680; daughter of a Christian Algonquin and a Mohawk chief; lost her parents to a smallpox epidemic which left her disfigured and half-blind; moved by the words of the “Blackrobes”–Jesuit missionaries–who stayed with her uncle, she converted at the age of 19; […]