The Golden Door

by Katherine Burton

This is a biography of a member of the prominent Drexel family of Philadelphia who devoted her immense fortune and her life to the services of others, and in the black habit of a nun was content to walk "simple, silent and unknown". Katherine Drexel founded the Sisters of The Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. She established 48 elementary schools 12 high schools, and the first Catholic university for Negroes in the United States - Xavier University in New Orleans. Katherine was beatified by Pope John Paul II November 20, 1988 and canonized on October 1, 2000, one of only a few American saints and the second American-born saint.

329 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1957

Reviews

[Catherine Corman · Rating 5 out of 5]

She said, “But remember this always: it is the supernatural which has called you here and it is only the supernatural which will sustain you and keep you here.”

-St. Katherine Drexel

[Marybeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful record of a beautiful life spent in the service of Christ.