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NAME: Saint Katharine Drexel
OCCUPATION: Nun
BIRTH DATE: November 26, 1858
DEATH DATE: March 03, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PLACE OF DEATH: Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania
Full Name: Saint Katharine Drexel

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Saint Katharine Drexel was the founder of the Blessed Sacrament Sisters for Indians and Colored People (now Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament).

Saint Katharine Drexel biography

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Saint Katharine Drexel dedicated her life and vast family fortune to the needs of oppressed Native Americans and African-Americans. In 1891, she established the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People, personally financing more than 60 missions and schools around the American Southwest. Fifty-five years after her death, her sainthood was canonized in by Pope John Paul II.

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