Kateri Tekakwitha Pendant Dove The Cross is ruggedly portrayed

The Cross is ruggedly portrayed and the symbols of wheat and grapes flow in the midst of grape leaves to create a lovely foil for the Host and Chalice

Sue painted this original in acrylics on an oval canvas

She was canonized in 1946 and is the Patroness of Immigrants

Sue Kouma Johnson painted the Immaculate Heart of Mary with acrylics and colored pencils

Kateri Tekakwitha Pendant Dove The Cross is ruggedly portrayedKnown as the Lily of the Mohawks, St Kateri was the daughter of a Christian Algonquin who was captured by Iroquois Indians and married to a pagan Mohawk chieftain. She was born in upstate New York and was orphaned at an early age when her parents and siblings died of smallpox. She was left with poor eyesight and a badly disfigured face. However, she was a beautiful soul consecrated to Christ with a vow of virginity. As a Catholic, she was persecuted