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Drexel, Mother Katharine Mary

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Drexel, Mother Katharine Mary (1858–1955)

US Catholic religious founder. The fortune she inherited from her banker father went to fund mission schools and churches for Native and black Americans. She directed the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People, which she founded, for over 40 years.

She was born in Philadelphia. She entered a noviciate at the Pope's urging and was beatified in 1988.



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