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| Worked for many years among the Hurons, but in the end was gruesomely tortured and martyred by the Hurons’ enemies, the Iroquois. | John de Brebeuf |
| This Spanish Franciscan friar began missionary activity in California in 1769. He established 9 missions on the Pacific Coast. | Junipero Serra |
| In the mid 1600’s this Jesuit missionary lived among the Hurons in the Albany area of New York. A war party of Mohawks captured, tortured and used him as a slave. Later he was martyred by Mohawks. | Isaac Jogues |
| A Mohawk princess who was baptized at age 20. Fearing for her life she escaped to where Montreal stands today. Pope John Paul II declared her blessed because she devoted her life to helping people in need. | Kateri Tekahwitha |
| A French widow who joined the Ursuline order and journeyed to the New World as its first woman missionary. | Marie Guyart |
| The overwhelming choice of the 26 US priests to be the first Bishop of the United States. He established the first US seminary in Baltimore, Maryland in 1789 | John Carroll |
| Convert, wife, mother, widow, and founder of the Sisters of Charity – She was the first American born person to be canonized a saint. | Elizabeth Ann Seton |
| Founder of the Sacred Heart order | Philippine Duchesne |
| Founder of the Religious of the Holy Child | Cornelia Connelly |
| Started the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and opened more than 50 houses of sisters to care for poor blacks and Indians in the South and Southwest. | Katharine Drexel |
| Started a religious order to care for people with incurable cancer | Rose Hawthorne Lathrop |
| A Belgian who was the first to work among the Plains Indians | Pierre Jean de Smet |
| The first black priest ordained for the United States – Because he had been refused admission to any American seminary, he had to go to Rome for his training and ordination in 1886. | Augustus Tolton |
| argued that Catholics should participate fully as citizens of a democratic country in which Church and state are separate | Archbishop John Ireland |
| Despite the gains of Catholics, prejudice that earlier Catholics suffered reappeared with bitterness in the presidential election of 1928 when the New York governor and a Catholic was badly beaten. | Alfred E. Smith |
| This Irish Catholic was elected president in 1960. | John F. Kennedy |
