Katherine Drexel

This is a biography of a member of the prominent Drexel family of Philadelphia who devoted her immense fortune and her life to the services of others, and in the black habit of a nun was content to walk "simple, silent and unknown". Katherine Drexel founded the Sisters of The Blessed Sacrament for I...

St. Katherine Drexel Ellen Tarry Vision Books This Vision Book for youth tells the beautiful story of America's recently canonized saint, servant of the oppressed, St. Katherine Drexel. Born in 1858 to Francis and Emma Drexel, Katherine grew up in a happy, devout, and wealthy Catholic family in Phil...

Powerful and profoundly moving, Saint Katharine is a book of rich and lively scholarship and of deeply felt devotion. You will not be able to put it down.”Donald Spoto, author of Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi When Katharine Drexel was born in 1858, her grandfather, financier Francis...

The Golden Door The Life of St. Katharine Drexel Wherever Mother Katharine Drexel went she lighted lamps of faith and hope to bring the African American and Native American Indian from the shadows to the light. Surely of her it may be said, as of the woman in Proverbs, "Her lamp shall not be put out...

On October 1, 2000, Pope John Paul II proclaimed Katharine Drexel (1858–1955) to be a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Only the second American-born Catholic saint in history, Drexel founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in 1891 and established more than sixty Blessed Sacrament missions an...

This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.