Case file · Apparition / miracle
Death of Kateri Tekakwitha
Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk-Algonquin convert, died at the Kahnawake mission on 17 April 1680; Jesuit witnesses wrote that the smallpox scars on her face vanished within minutes of death.
1680 CE · 45.41, -73.68 · status: account
The account
Pilgrims attributed cures to her relics. She was canonized in 2012, the first Indigenous North American saint, after a Washington boy's recovery from flesh-eating infection was attributed to her.
The sceptical view
Witnesses were her Jesuit directors, who promoted her cult.