Saint Kateri Tekawitha statue

I’ve seen and photographed this wooden sculpture of the Saint Kateri Tekawitha, displayed inside the Mission San Xavier del Bac, Arizona. The mission is a beautiful historic Spanish Catholic religious complex. Padre Eusebio Kino established it in 1692 in the Tohono O’odham San Xavier Indian Reservation. History says that born in 1656, Kateri Tekawitha was …