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Catholic religious founder and missionary Katharine Drexel used her family’s fortune to fund mission schools and churches for Native and African Americans. She professed her vows in 1891, founded her own order, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, and directed it for over 40 years. Her ministries addressed social inequities and provided quality education to minorities at schools like Holy Providence School here. She was canonized in 2000.
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Cornwells Heights, Pennsylvania · United States
