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Kateri Tekakwitha was named the first Native American saint today by Pope Benedict XVI in a ceremony held in St. Peter’s Square.
The image you see above is a painting by of her on the high walls of Saint Adalbert Basilica’s nave and was painted by Jozef Mazur.
There is an interesting back story to how I noticed this painting, you can read read that here—>
In honor of Kateri Tekakwitha being canonized today, I decided to post the painting from the basilica.