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 ...

Throughout her life, St. Katharine Drexel’s chief motivation was to help more people to know and love Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Tuesday, July 15, 2025. A service of EWTN News.

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.

On March 17, 1889, St. Katharine founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Her first group of nuns opened a boarding school in Santa Fe, N.M.

The legacy of St. Katharine Drexel. The pope opened his first homily in Philadelphia with a story about Drexel’s call. When she was a young woman, Drexel met with Pope Leo XII who asked her, “What are ...

St. Katharine Drexel is the patron of racial justice and of philanthropists. Her feast day is March 3. St. Katharine Drexel, ca. 1910-1920 (photo: Wikimedia Commons) ...

Xavier University sits alongside Drexel Drive -- the stretch of Palmetto Street on the downtown side of South Carrollton Avenue got the new name in 2000 -- and it has a modernistic St. Katharine ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — On February 12, Katharine Drexel vowed to be the first sister of the Blessed Sacrament, where the sister educated black and Native American peoples. Members of the Catholic ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- The Archdiocese of Philadelphia unveiled renderings of the new tomb for Saint Katharine Drexel on Tuesday. It will be constructed over the next few weeks at the Cathedral ...