가타리나 드렉셀

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성녀 가타리나 드렉셀(Katharine Drexel, 1858년 11월 26일 - 1955년 3월 3일)은 미국의 로마 가톨릭교회 수녀이자 자선활동가, 교육자, 성인이다.

Katharine Drexel, SBS 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.