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About Katharine Drexel
Katharine Drexel, SBS 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. Canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2000, Drexel was the second person born in the United States to be declared a saint and the first who was born a U.S. citizen.
Everything about Katharine Drexel →- Occupation
- religious sister, educator, missionary, nun
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- November 26, 1858, 1858
- Died
- March 3, 1955, 1955