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The Saint Katharine Drexel Mission Center and National Shrine was formerly located at St. Elizabeth's Convent in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. The Mission Center offered retreat programs, historic site tours, days of prayer, presentations about Saint Katharine Drexel, as well as lectures and seminars related to her legacy.
Katharine Drexel, SBS (born Catherine Mary Drexel; November 26, 1858 – March 3, 1955) was an American Catholic religious sister, and educator. In 1891, she founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament , a religious congregation serving Black and Indigenous Americans .
For some years previous to this step, Drexel had been very active in re-establishing and supporting schools in many of the Indian reservations. [2] The first sisters, including foundress Katharine Drexel, entered religious life under the tutelage of the Sisters of Mercy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They were also inspired by O'Connor, who ...
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?
Xavier Prep was established in 1915 by Saint Katharine Drexel; its first president was a Josephite priest. [2] It was originally intended to be a revival of Southern University, which had recently relocated from Uptown New Orleans to Baton Rouge due to racist opposition to an HBCU being in the neighborhood.
View from Route I-95, of the former Motherhouse and Mission Center on the former St. Katharine Drexel Shrine on Bristol Pike, in Bensalem, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022.
The high school, known as Xavier Prep, remained in operation until 2013; today, St. Katharine Drexel Preparatory School operates from the same location.) In 1917, Xavier expanded to include a normal school to provide training for black teachers, as Archbishop James H. Blenk was eager for graduates to teach at six planned new black parishes. [3]
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