Katharine Drexel

Unknown author (circa 1915) (link)

Feast Day March 3

Patron of Racial Justice, Philanthropists

Situations Education, Philanthropy, Racial Justice

Professions Educators, Philanthropists

Saint Katharine Drexel was an American heiress who gave up her vast fortune to found the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, dedicated to serving African Americans and Native Americans. Born in Philadelphia in 1858, she used her inheritance to establish over sixty schools and missions, including Xavier University of Louisiana, the only historically Black Catholic university in the United States.