Katharine Drexel

Katharine Drexel, SBS (November 26, 1858 – March 3, 1955) was an American Catholic religious sister and educator. In 1891, she founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a religious congregation serving Black and Indigenous Americans. Canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2000, Drexel was the second person born in the United States to be declared a saint and the first who was born a U.S. citizen.

Patron saint of Racial justice; philanthropists