Resources by Cheryl C. D. Hughes

Katharine Drexel: The Riches-to-Rags Life Story of an American Catholic Saint

by Cheryl C. D. Hughes

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 r… Read more…