Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha

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How do you pronounce her name? Our family is very fond of her & want to use the closes pronounciation possible for those of us who are not of the Mohawk people.
 
I am not sure either – I have wondered the same. I hear it differently from various people. She is my patron, and a wonderful one! I feel very close to her already, and especially on her feast day (July 14) I felt that she prayed to God to give me blessings.

God bless you!
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“Kateri” isn’t really a Mohawk/Iroquois name–it is their corruption (if you will) of the French name “Catherine”. I subscribe to the theory that when the French clerics wrote down her name, that they did so phonetically. So I personally pronounce it the way it’s spelled (kat-er-EE), as do the priests and brothers at her shrine at Caughnawaga.

Likewise, I just go with tee-kak-WEETH-ah for her given name.

Having said all that, Norm Léveillée offers the pronouciation Gah-deh-lee Deh-gah-quee-tah.
 
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“Kateri” isn’t really a Mohawk/Iroquois name–it is their corruption (if you will) of the French name “Catherine”. I subscribe to the theory that when the French clerics wrote down her name, that they did so phonetically. So I personally pronounce it the way it’s spelled (kat-er-EE), as do the priests and brothers at her shrine at Caughnawaga.

Likewise, I just go with tee-kak-WEETH-ah for her given name.

Having said all that, Norm Léveillée offers the pronouciation Gah-deh-lee Deh-gah-quee-tah.
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Hey, thanks alot Timidity. I think I’d like to pronounce her name the way she would have. This is great.
 
It is pronounced “God-a-Lee” as per a 100% Mohawk woman who was named such. It is a very common name among Mohawks. The “Tekakwitha” is pronounced “day-GAY-gwee-tah”. Our daughter is named after her and we also use the Mohawk pronunciation, though nearly everyone we meet cannot understand the name being pronounced this way.
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