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The entrance to the shrine of Katherine Drexel in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. Katharine Drexel, SBS (born Catherine Mary Drexel; November 26, 1858 – March 3, 1955) was an American Catholic religious sister, and educator.
They were founded in 1891 by Katharine Drexel as the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. During her life, Saint Katharine used approximately $20 million of her personal fortune to fund SBS-staffed schools for Native Americans and African Americans ; her wealth passed on to other charitable organizations following ...
126 Church St., Bentleyville: Part of St. Katharine Drexel Parish. Corpus Christi 2515 Versailles Ave., McKeesport: Part of Mary, Mother of God Parish. Good Shepherd Braddock Ave. at Frazier St., Braddock: Part of St. Joseph the Worker Parish. Guardian Angels 213 Steuben St., West End, Pittsburgh Closed in 1994 (merged into new Guardian Angels ...
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.
St. Elizabeth's Convent was a historic Roman Catholic convent located at 1663 Bristol Pike in Cornwells Heights, Bensalem Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.From 1892 to 2017 it served as the motherhouse of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, founded by St. Katharine Drexel as the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People.
Assumption B.V.M. School (Feasterville) – Consolidated into St. Katharine Drexel Regional Catholic School in 2012. [2] St. Bede the Venerable School – Consolidated into St. Katharine Drexel Regional Catholic School in 2012. [2] St. John the Evangelist School (Morrisville) – Closed in 2012. [2] Chester County
In 1925, St Katharine Drexel used her fortune and connections to help found Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA) in New Orleans, the first and only Catholic HBCU. [65] She also helped found a second, short-lived Black Catholic college in Guthrie, Oklahoma , known as Claver College ; it folded 1944 after 11 years.
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