Bensalem shrine to St. Katharine Drexel to be sold
Nearly 125 years ago, the woman who would become only the second American-born saint left her gilded-age Philadelphia family and poured her $20 million inheritance into a religious order.
by Emily Babay and David O'Reilly, STAFF WRITERS
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The complex in Bensalem includes this building housing the shrine of St. Katharine Drexel. She foundedthe Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. She died in 1955, was canonized in 2000.Read moreMICHAEL BRYANT / Staff Photographer
