Franciscan Mission Associates (FMA), now in its 49th year of service to the missions of the world, is a spiritually based organization with worldwide mission-helping undertakings. It promotes information about and interest in the missionaries and their people - particularly in the Franciscan Missions of Central America, but also in the inner cities of the United States and Canada as well as every continent in the world.
 Kateri Tekakwitha
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 PrayerAlmighty God, we thank you for the flowering of the Lily of the Mohawks, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. We are inspired by her response to her mother's training and to the preaching of the Jesuit missionaries. May the Native Americans of our Land look to her for inspiration. We ask you this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Known as the "Lily of the Mohawks" Kateri was born in1656 in Osserenon (now Auriesville, NY) of a Christian Algonquin mother and a pagan Mohawk chief, and died 24 years later in 1680.
