Katharine Drexel: The Riches-To-Rags Story Of An American Catholic Saint

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 and schools. In this biography Cheryl Hughes chronicles the remarkable life of St. Katharine Drexel, exploring what drove her to turn away from her family s wealth and become a missionary nun who served some of the most underprivileged and marginalized people of her time. Through her inspiration and effort "Mother" Katharine improved the lives of untold numbers of Native Americans and African Americans, overcoming open hostility to her work from various quarters, including the Ku Klux Klan. Her saintly legacy lives on today. 9780802869920 0802869920 283 BOOK Biography & Autobiography NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BDwpAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Cheryl D. Hughes
• | Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 283 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0802869920
• | ISBN-13: 9780802869920