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Kateri Mary
The first Native American saint was Kateri Tekakwitha, who became a Catholic aged 19. She was so devout that she chose to take a vow of perpetual virginity and refused to marry. When she died at the age of 24, scars from smallpox that had marked her face were said to disappear.
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