![]() ![]() She was a distant cousin of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on her father's side. Her family owned a considerable banking fortune, and her uncle Anthony Joseph Drexel was the founder of Drexel University in Philadelphia. Katharine Mary Drexel was born Catherine Marie Drexel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 26, 1858, to Francis Anthony Drexel and Hannah Langstroth. In 1891, she founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a religious order serving Black and Indigenous Americans.Ĭanonized by Pope John Paul II in 2000, Drexel was the second person born in what is now the United States to be made a saint and the first who was born a U.S. ![]() Katharine Drexel, SBS (born Catherine Mary Drexel Novem– March 3, 1955) was an American Catholic heiress, philanthropist, religious sister, and educator. Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, U.S.Įntrance to the Drexel shrine in Bensalem, PA ![]()
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