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The area is named after financier Francis Anthony Drexel, the father of Saint Katharine Drexel ( who established missions to Blacks and Native Americans throughout the United States ).
The Mission Center and National Shrine of St. Katharine Drexel is located on Bristol Pike in Bensalem.
The shrine houses the remains of St. Katharine Drexel, born in 1858 to a wealthy Philadelphia family.
The St. Katharine Drexel Parish, established in 1993 by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia with the consolidation of all Roman Catholic parishes in the city, maintains the city's only parochial school.
Located in New Orleans, Xavier University of Louisiana was established in 1925 when St. Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament founded the coeducational secondary school from which it evolved.
Through the years, as needs dictated, the campus gradually filled out, with the addition of a library — which now houses music — in 1937, the gymnasium ( 1937 ), St. Michael's men's dormitory ( 1955 ), the Student Center ( 1962 ), women's dormitories: St. Joseph's ( 1965 ) and Katharine Drexel ( 1969 ), the House of Studies ( 1967 ); the College of Pharmacy ( 1970 ), the Norman C. Francis Academic / Science Complex ( 1988 ), the new Library / Resource Center and College of Pharmacy addition ( 1993 ), and Peter Claver women's dormitory ( 1994 ).
Since its founding by Katharine Drexel, Xavier's mission has been to serve the African American Catholic community ; however its doors have always been open to qualified students of every race and creed.
Krol campaigned for the canonization of Katharine Drexel, and was present at the canonization of his Czech-born predecessor in Philadelphia, Bishop John Neumann.
Saint Katharine Drexel, S. B. S., ( November 26, 1858 – March 3, 1955 ) was an American religious sister, heiress, philanthropist and educator, later canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.
Katharine Mary Drexel was born Catherine Marie Drexel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 26, 1858, to Francis Anthony Drexel and Hannah Langstroth.
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