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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.
Drexel died in 1955, and at the time the order had over 500 members. [5] Because her father's will stated that his daughters' inheritance should go to their children—or else to his other chosen charitable causes—upon their deaths, the SBS sisters no longer had a stream of income after Mother Katharine's death.
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 .
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?
The campus of Xavier University of Louisiana is often referred to as "Emerald City" due to the various buildings on campus that have green roofs. These include the Library/Resource center, the Norman C. Francis science addition, the University Center, the Living Learning Center, the Saint Martin De Porres hall and the Katharine Drexel hall.
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.
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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.