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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, 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.

Katharine M. Drexel was born in Philadelphia on Nov. 26, 1858. ... Mother Katharine Drexel was canonized by Pope John Paul II and became only the second American-born individual to be named a saint.

HURRICANE SEASON. 435 NOW RISING ABOVE AND DEFYING THE ODDS. THAT’S THE STORY OF ONE TEEN MOTHER TURNED EDUCATOR. WDSU REPORTER ARIELLE BRUMFIELD SAT DOWN WITH THE NEW HEAD OF SAINT KATHARINE ...

On March 3, 1955, Reverend Mother Katharine Drexel died at the convent. It is estimated she spent over $20 million during her lifetime to educate Native American and African-American students.

But the thousands who attended the Canonization Day Celebration held Sunday at the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament Motherhouse in Bensalem seemed no worse for wear for having lost a little sleep, … ...

Katharine Drexel founded and funded schools in Carencro. Curious Louisiana discovers if local land donor Sosthene Arceneaux gave her a ride to one of those locations in his horse-drawn buggy.