Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano, California

This statue follows the usual iconography for St. Kateri Tekakwitha: the cross; the short, fringed mantle; and the laced footware. The lily refers to a title sometimes used for her, "Lily of the Mohawks."

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Photographed at the basilica by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.