Philadelphia’s Sainted Katharine Drexel: “Mother and Servant of the Indian and Negro Races”
Posted by William Kashatus on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Philadelphia’s Sainted Katharine Drexel: “Mother and Servant of the Indian and Negro Races” On Thursday morning, January 27, 1887, the Drexel sisters of Philadelphia attended a private mass conducted by Pope Leo XIII (1810–1903) in Rome’s fabled Vatican. As members of one of the wealthiest and most devout Catholic families in the United States, the three young women — Elizabeth, age 31, Katharine, age 28, and Louise, age 23 — were also given a rare audience with the pontiff. The...read more