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Katharine Drexel, SBS (born Catherine Mary Drexel; November 26, 1858 – March 3, 1955) was an American Catholic heiress, philanthropist, religious sister, and educator. In 1891, she founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a religious order serving Black and Indigenous Americans. (Full article...)

Saint Katharine Drexel, photograph, ca. 1910-1920


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Patronage: Philanthropy, racial justice
See also: Cunigunde of Luxembourg

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