PHILADELPHIA – One morning in January 1900, Mother Katharine Drexel was riding to Lynchburg, Va., when her train stopped in a little town. “Columbia” read the station sign, and through the ...

Her great-grandmother was Katharine’s beloved cousin Emilie Drexel Biddle, Anthony J. Drexel’s daughter. Katharine Drexel’s story certainly is unlike any other. Born in 1858 to one of Philadelphia’s ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Fulfilling a 36-year journey to sainthood, Pope John Paul II has set a date to canonize Mother Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia heiress who dedicated her life to opening ...

Katharine Drexel, who died in 1955, was declared a saint by Pope John Paul II in October 2000 in a ceremony in St. Peter's Square. Sixty-two years after Katharine Drexel's death, her legacy endures.

Mother Katharine Drexel came from a prominent Philadelphia family. Her congregation especially focused on ministry to African-Americans and Native Americans. Between 1891 and 1935, ...

Tomorrow, at a celebration in Rome, Mary Katharine Drexel (1858-1955) will become the second American-born Catholic saint. The first, Elizabeth Ann Seton, canonized in 1975, was born in New York ...

Katharine Drexel, the millionaire socialite from Philadelphia who gave everything away to tend to the poorest of the poor, gained it all back in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday as P… ...

St. Katharine Drexel could have easily chosen the life of a socialite heiress to a vast family fortune in late 19th century Philadelphia. ... Mother Drexel found Xavier College in New Orleans, ...

The remains of St. Katharine Drexel were installed last month at the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul. Moving her tomb from the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament’s motherhouse in Bensalem, ...

Life could have been pampered for the young Katharine Drexel, a millionaire’s daughter in turn-of-the-century Philadelphia. She inherited $20 million at the age of 27. But by her death in 195… ...

Mother Katharine, right, and her sister, Louise Drexel Morrell, on the grounds of St. Francis and St. Emma school in Virginia. The large dog is the supposedly ferocious Mardo.