Season 3: The Saintly Socialite
Katharine Drexel
On October 1, 2000, Pope John Paul II proclaimed Katharine Drexel a saint of the Catholic Church . She became the second American born saint of the Catholic Church and its answer to the relative social, political, and economic disadvantages of African American and Native American people.
Katherine is a true Riches to rags story of a young lady trying to find her true vocation and to make an impact on the world. She inherited a huge fortune and got to work.
In her lifetime she took on racism, the KKK, and the challenges of going from living a life of luxury to what you would imagine being the complete opposite. Katherine lived a life true to her mission of helping those less fortunate.