Katharine Drexel
November 26, 1858 — March 3, 1955 · Feast day: March 3
Born to Philadelphia's banking elite in 1858, Katharine Drexel inherited a fortune and spent it — on sixty missions and schools for African Americans and Native Americans across the United States. She founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in 1891 and Xavier University of Louisiana in 1915, the only historically Black Catholic university in the country, and was canonized in 2000.