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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The plans for a proposed age-restricted development on the grounds of the former National Shrine of Saint Mother Katharine Drexel ...

Katharine Drexel's Our Lady of Assumption Catholic School building stands empty at 410 Michaud St. in Carencro. The school was consolidated with Drexel's St. Anne Convent School and St. Pierre ...

Dust rose from the wagon ruts as the crates slid to the ground. I steadied one marked “slates” and watched the adobe walls of the old mission house catch the late light. Katharine Drexel stood a few ...

The Our Lady of Assumption Catholic School in Carencro is just a wood-frame building, nothing fancy. It's not even in use, but it's still standing in the same spot where Katharine Drexel founded and ...