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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 .
Drexel died in 1955, and at the time the order had over 500 members. [5] Because her father's will stated that his daughters' inheritance should go to their children—or else to his other chosen charitable causes—upon their deaths, the SBS sisters no longer had a stream of income after Mother Katharine's death.
Catherine Mary Drexel (1858–1955), who became a nun, founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, took the name Mother Katharine, and was declared a Catholic saint. [ 3 ] In 1860, he remarried to his second wife, Emma Mary Bouvier (1833–1883).
In 1899, Mother Katharine Drexel (later canonized), an heiress to the Drexel banking family of Philadelphia, responded to the request by providing funds to construct St. Theresa's Institute for Creek Indian Girls. Mother Katharine intended the school to benefit Indian and African American children of the Oklahoma and Indian Territories but she ...
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.
Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC (Italian: Francesca Saverio Cabrini; born Maria Francesca Cabrini; July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917), also known as Mother Cabrini, was a prominent Italian-American religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church. She was the first American to be recognized by the Vatican as a saint.
Drexel’s mother and attorneys held a press conference Thursday in Georgetown County, where the teen’s remains were found last year. Brittanee Drexel’s family names Myrtle Beach hotel in suit ...
Katharine McPhee Foster is sharing a sweet moment with her son.. On Sunday, Nov. 3, the actress, 40, posted a sweet photo of herself and her 3-year-old son Rennie on Instagram as they sat on some ...