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.

The former motherhouse for Saint Katherine Drexel's Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament was supposed to be an old-age development by now. What happened?

In 1964, when John Cardinal Krol began publicly campaigning for Drexel to become a saint, visitation increased to 7,000 people a year.

Members of the Catholic Diocese of Beaumont still tell stories of St. Katharine Drexel protecting her schools from the KKK to this day.

For more than 100 years, a group of Catholic nuns has shaped the lives of hundreds of students in New Orleans in the tradition of Saint Katharine Drexel.

Throughout her life, St. Katharine Drexel’s chief motivation was to help more people to know and love Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Volunteers unload bags of groceries at the Saint Katharine Drexel Food Pantry in Chester. The Pantry will open its doors at a new location on Tuesday, Sept. 5. (COURTESY PHOTO) ...

This past week, the Catholic Church celebrated the feast day of one of her cherished daughters, Saint Katharine Drexel. She was a woman on a Gospel mission. It seemed nothing could stop her, not ...

SAN DIEGO — Saint Katharine Drexel Academy, a private Catholic school in San Diego, is at risk of closing at the end of the school year unless it raises $500,000 and increases enrollment by 30 ...

Katharine Drexel, seated, at the Catherine Tegawitha Indian School in Houck, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. This photo was believed to have been taken in September 1932.

St. Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia heiress, founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, with their motherhouse in Bensalem. She was canonized a saint in 2000 by Pope John Paul II.