St. Katharine Drexel, S.B.S. (1858-1955)
Feast Day - March 3rd
Katharine learned the value of charity in a wealthy Philadelphia family that distributed food, clothing, and rent assistance from their own home. The travels to which she was privileged brought her into personal contact with the plight of Native Americans, and a substantial fortune inherited upon her father's death allowed her financial support of missions to them. Her spiritual director advised to wait and pray before becoming a contemplative. This was reinforced when her request to Pope Leo XIII for more missionaries to the Native Americans met the reply, "Why not, my child, yourself become a missionary?" That she did, professing vows as the founding mother of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. In her lifetime she and her sisters founded dozens of schools and missions across over a dozen states to serve Native- and African Americans, including Xavier University in New Orleans. In 1895 Mother Katharine donated to the church enlargement in Newton Grove, NC, on the condition that a section of pews be reserved for "Colored People" and they always be welcome in the church. Patroness of philanthropy, racial justice
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