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.

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… ...

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, ...

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.

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.

Guillory says that Katharine Drexel got permission to become religious in 1889 from Bishop James O'Connor. "She asked to start schools, ... which was founded by Mother Drexel in 1917.

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.