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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.
St. Katharine Drexel 4100 Mill Creek Rd, Haymarket: Mission founded in 2005 [42] St. Catherine of Siena 1020 Springvale Rd, Great Falls [43] St. Joseph
St. Emma Military Academy for boys, named after Katharine's stepmother, was opened on the property by Edward Morrell and his wife Louise (Katharine's half-sister). [6] Together, the schools are credited with educating 15,000 Black students. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. [1] The schools were closed in the ...
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.
Columbia is home to St. Joseph's Church and Shrine of St. Katharine Drexel, a parish within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond. [15] The church was built by William and Catherine Wakeham, English Catholic abolitionists who moved to Columbia in 1833. Because they were abolitionists, the hill on which their house was built came to be called ...
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 ...
Katharine Mary Drexel: 26 November 1858 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States ... 17 September 1597 in St. Catherines Island, Georgia, United States
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