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 ...

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.

Katharine Drexel was a dynamic and zealous apostle to the peripheries in the United States. She never met a stranger, and she never considered anyone a foreigner to her heart.

With at least six published volumes on her life, such as Lou Baldwin’s Saint Katharine Drexel (2000), numerous articles on the sisterhood she founded, and even dissertations on the works of her ...

St. Katharine Drexel could have easily chosen the life of a socialite heiress to a vast family fortune in late 19th century Philadelphia. But for her, true wealth was found in changing the lives ...

The sacred remains of Saint Katharine Drexel (1858–1955), a member of the Drexel family dynasty who gave up a life of luxury to dedicate herself to the Roman Catholic Church, were brought back to her ...

Mother M. Katharine Drexel, the foundress and superior of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People, had spent the summer of 1912 on the road.

The Katharine Drexel Chapel at Xavier University in New Orleans. (Photo by Rusty Costanza / The Times-Picayune) Xavier University's new St. Katharine Drexel Chapel is designed with mystery in mind.