St Katherine Drexel

Even though Katharine grew up in a rich family, she was taught to love her neighbours and to take care of the poor around her.  Her family used the money they had to help others and show how much they loved God.  Katherine and her sister taught children about God at Sunday School and later Katherine worked hard to help the poor and those people that had no one to take care of them.  She helped the African American and Native American people in the USA.  She spent millions of dollars of her family’s money to build schools, buy food and clothes and to help the teachers in the communities she was helping.  She also found priests to come and tell the people about God.  Katherine then became a nun, changing her name to Sister Mary Katherine and started an order of sisters called the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Mother Katherine, as her sisters called her, found Jesus truly present in the Eucharist and in the people that she served.  She lived until she was 97 years old.