"Do you have information on St. Katharine Drexel being escorted by Sosthene Arceneaux in a buggy to locate property to build ...

When Pope John Paul II canonizes Katharine Drexel and three others today in ... which had a small piece of fabric from the nun’s habit — called a relic — attached to it, and then said ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - For more than 100 years, a group of Catholic nuns has shaped the lives of hundreds of students in New Orleans in the tradition of Saint Katharine Drexel. Drexel was the second ...

Others who never met the small, smart nun with the bright blue eyes plan ... The climax of their journey will come next Sunday, when Katharine Drexel, a socialite turned activist for the oppressed ...

Katharine M. Drexel was born in Philadelphia on Nov. 26, 1858. Her father, Francis A. Drexel, was a devout Catholic and wealthy banker with Drexel and Co. Her mother, Hannah Drexel, died soon ...

When receiving this book, this reviewer wondered: Why do we need another biography of St. Katharine Drexel ... As “the richest nun in America,” Drexel headed the congregation she founded ...

Recount the heiress’ life, and her conversion to a Roman Catholic nun. The original program — one of WHYY’s most popular — recounts the heiress’ life, her conversion to a Roman Catholic ...

Katharine sat by and nursed her. It was in these long meditative periods that the idea of a religious vocation first came to her. Disruption came into the lives of the Drexel family when Emma was ...

Visitors, performers, volunteers, and the nuns themselves intermingled on the Motherhouse grounds, all to honor Drexel ... for a chance to visit the St. Katharine Shrine, to pray in the chapel ...

Katharine Drexel was born in 1858 to a wealthy family ... She wrote a longtime friend, Bishop James O’Connor, of her desire to enter religious life: “Like the little girl who wept when she ...

Guillory says that Katharine Drexel got permission to become religious in 1889 from Bishop James O'Connor. "She asked to start schools, building schools in the United States for Black and Indians ...