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JustHere4Icons [2018-04-23 16:38:05 +0000 UTC]
I've noticed that the iconography of St. Kateri wearing a blue mantle is pretty standard. Besides your icon, I've noticed it in another icon and the state of St. Kateri in my daughter's room (Kateri is her namesake.) Do you happen to know why she (almost) always has a blue mantle? Is there a Marian connection?
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schizocatgirl264 [2016-11-27 03:24:42 +0000 UTC]
Seriously one of the best artists on deviantart!
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LadyoftheApocalypse [2016-11-22 20:05:26 +0000 UTC]
This is very beautiful! My daughter was dressed as her for All Saints Day about 5 years ago.
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MyrtleRose [2016-11-21 06:17:18 +0000 UTC]
This is absolutely beautiful! I love all your work.
St. Kateri Tekakwitha is my confirmation saint, she was still a blessed at the time, so I was really happy to see that you did her icon.
Lovely! Thank you for sharing!
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nKhyi-naonZgo [2016-11-21 02:35:45 +0000 UTC]
Nice detail on her robe.
There are some very interesting implications of the title "Lily of the Mohawks" given the word's etymology, and the reason the Iroquois's Narragansett enemies named them that.
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nKhyi-naonZgo In reply to Theophilia [2016-11-21 19:41:48 +0000 UTC]
Well, "Mohawk" is from the Narragansett word mohowawog, the plural of mohowawo, "man-eaters" (or more literally "they eat [something animate]", a euphemism for "man-eater"). It was a name the Narragansett gave to at least one faction of their Iroquoian enemies, because war-cannibalism was common among the northern Iroquoians, at least—I know it was practiced by the Iroquois proper and the Huron, but not the Cherokee. (The word "wendigo" is from Ojibwa, a language in the same group as Narragansett, which should indicate how they view cannibalism. The Cherokee, who were Iroquoian, also seem to have tabooed it, so it was probably an innovation for Iroquoians too.) "Lily of the Mohawks" means "Flower-of-purity of the Cannibals".
Much like how the Guadalupana appeared to one of the Tenochca, the most hated people in Mesoamerica (considered a nation of witches even by the other Nahuatl-speaking peoples—mostly because they, too, practiced cannibalism), it's interesting that the New World's native saints don't come from the peoples who made the easy converts, like the Tlaxcaltecah and Algonquians, but from the people who are initially the enemies of the missionaries, the Tenochca and Mohawks. Or take Isaac Jogues: the guy who killed him (another Mohawk), who was captured by one of the (probably Algonquian) allies of the French, asked, before they killed him, to be baptized...under the name "Isaac Jogues".
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Gryffgirl [2016-11-20 12:57:50 +0000 UTC]
Beautiful! Have you seen the sculpture of her on the doors of St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC?
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Theophilia In reply to Gryffgirl [2016-11-21 01:24:55 +0000 UTC]
Thanks!
No, I don't believe I have. Do you have a picture of it?
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Gryffgirl In reply to Theophilia [2016-11-21 02:10:25 +0000 UTC]
The link would not copy, but google her name with St. Patrick's Carhedral, click images, and you will see.
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Theophilia In reply to Gryffgirl [2016-11-21 17:43:06 +0000 UTC]
Oh very lovely! I would really love to go to St. Patrick's cathedral one day!
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DCJBeers [2016-11-20 10:15:05 +0000 UTC]
Well done!!!
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christophf [2016-11-20 09:11:44 +0000 UTC]
good both
picture and information
good work
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