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Katharine Drexel, SBS (born Catherine Mary Drexel; November 26, 1858 – March 3, 1955) was an American Catholic religious sister, and educator. In 1891, she founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament , a religious congregation serving Black and Indigenous Americans .
Part of St. Katharine Drexel Parish St. Ambrose 1012 E 47th St, Chicago Founded in 1904, closed in 2022 [64] St. Anselm 6045 S Michigan Ave, Chicago Founded in 1909, closed in 2022 [65] St. Basil/Visitation 843 W. Garfield Blvd, Chicago St. Benedict the African 340 W 66th St, Chicago St. Elizabeth 50 E 41st St, Chicago
Founded in 1991. Church dedicated in 2009 [41] St. Katharine Drexel 4100 Mill Creek Rd, Haymarket: Mission founded in 2005 [42] St. Catherine of Siena 1020 Springvale Rd, Great Falls [43] St. Joseph 750 Peachtree St, Herndon: Founded in 1944, church started in 1984 [44] St. John the Apostle 55 Oakcrest Manor Dr. NE, Leesburg
View from Route I-95, of the former Motherhouse and Mission Center on the former St. Katharine Drexel Shrine on Bristol Pike, in Bensalem, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022.
They were founded in 1891 by Katharine Drexel as the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. During her life, Saint Katharine used approximately $20 million of her personal fortune to fund SBS-staffed schools for Native Americans and African Americans ; her wealth passed on to other charitable organizations following ...
Columbia is home to St. Joseph's Church and Shrine of St. Katharine Drexel, a parish within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond. [14] The church was built by William and Catherine Wakeham, English Catholic abolitionists who moved to Columbia in 1833. Because they were abolitionists, the hill on which their house was built came to be called ...
St. Katharine Drexel 517 Blue Hill Ave, Boston ... Methuen Catholic St. Monica Church, 212 Lawrence St, Methuen Founded as a mission in 1897, became a parish in 1917 ...
Parish merged with St. Agnes and St. Francis of Assisi to form the new St. Katharine Drexel parish, which meets in the latter's former home on North Ogden Street. [36] The International Sangha Bhiksu Buddhist Association purchased the building in 2009 [91] intending to use it a convent, [175] but sold it in 2017 [15] without ever having ...