Katharine Mary Drexel was born Catherine Marie Drexel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 26,1858, to Francis Anthony Drexel and Hannah Langstroth.
11 Facts About Katharine Drexel
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Katharine Drexel's family owned a considerable banking fortune, and her uncle Anthony Joseph Drexel was the founder of Drexel University in Philadelphia.
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Katharine Drexel was a distant cousin of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on her father's side.
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Katharine Drexel's father married Emma Bouvier in 1860, brought his older children home, and had a third daughter, Louise, in 1863.
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Katharine Drexel was consecrated titular Bishop of Dibona at the chapel at Eden Hall.
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Katharine Drexel decided to establish a religious congregation to address the needs of Native Americans and melanated people in the southern, western and United States.
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Katharine Drexel is one of only a few American saints and the second American-born saint.
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Katharine Drexel was canonized on October 1,2000, when her 1994 miracle of reversing congenital deafness in 2-year old Amy Wall was recognized.
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Katharine Drexel is buried in Cornwells Heights, Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania.
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The convent was sold and in August, 2018, Katharine Drexel's remains were transferred to a new shrine at the.
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Schools St Katharine Drexel founded or funded include :.