March 3 *Saint of the Day--St. *Katharine-Drexel

Katharine Drexel was born in 1858 @ Philadelphia, has access to Pennsylvania, USA, countries...and was born into a well rich home of  Francis Anthony and Hanna Langstroth Drexel., So Katharine was so educated & rich, she even went so *WILD like the celebrities of today touching around the world with many noble organizations.

Katharine Drexel letter faced the real meaning and the purpose of mankind in this world, Which is: the world is not a bird of roses, experiencing the world of human,  after she took care of her sick stepmother at the stage of death for 3yrs, Katharine realized that even money can never buy this life back.

Katharine for long and always has a good interest for the good of the Indians at heart, she was so dishearten about what she read in Helen Hunt Jackson’s A *Century of Dishonor* and was shocked. Katharine met Pope Leo XIII & asked him 2 ^send more missionaries 2 Wyoming for her friend Bishop James O’Connor While on a European tour. D pope *replied, “Why don’t U become a missionary?” Pope answer appalled her into considering new *likelihood.

When Katharine returned home, she visited the Dakotas, met D Sioux leader Red Cloud and began her natural help 2 Indian *missions.

Katharine was sorounded with marriage, But each time she remembers the her and reply fro Bishop O’Connor, which she wrote in 1889, *The *feast of St. Joseph brought me the grace to give the remainder of my life to the Indians & D Colored.” Newspaper headlines screamed “Gives Up Seven Million!”

In 3years plus of her training, Katharina & her 1st band of nuns (Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored) opened a boarding school in Santa Fe. A string of foundations followed. By 1942 she had a system of black Catholic schools in 13 states, plus 40 mission centers and 23 rural schools. Segregationists harassed her work, even burning a school in Pennsylvania. In all, she established 50 missions for Indians in 16 states.



Two saints met when Katharine was advised by Mother Cabrini about the “politics” of getting her Order’s Rule approved in Rome. Her crowning achievement was the founding of Xavier University in New Orleans, the first Catholic university in the United States for African Americans.

At 77, she suffered a heart attack and was forced to retire. Apparently her life was over. But now came almost 20 years of quiet, intense prayer from a small room overlooking the sanctuary. Small notebooks and slips of paper record her various prayers, ceaseless aspirations and meditation. She died at 96 and was canonized in 2000.