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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 .
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 ...
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.
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
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. Katharine Drexel Preparatory School (also known as Drexel Prep or SKDP) is a private Catholic high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. The school is named for the late Saint Katharine Drexel . She is the first saint who was born a U.S. citizen.