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title: "St. Katharine Drexel: Feast Day March 3 · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/saints/st-katharine-drexel/
description: "St. Katharine Drexel, Virgin. Remembered on March 3, died 1955. Read their life in Bless."
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Virgin · Remembered on March 3

# St. Katharine Drexel

St. Katharine Drexel is remembered on March 3 in Bless’s calendar of saints.

|  |  |
|---|---|
| Remembered on | [March 3](https://blessbible.app/saints/march/#3) |
| Title | Virgin |
| Died | 1955 |
| Next on Bless’s Today screen | [Wednesday, March 3, 2027](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-katharine-drexel/#calendar) |

## Life

Heiress of a Philadelphia banking fortune who asked Leo XIII to send missionaries to America’s Indian and Black communities — and was told by the pope to become a missionary herself. She did: her Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and twenty million dollars built more than sixty schools, Xavier University of Louisiana among them.

## In the calendar

The upcoming dates, through December 31, 2028, when Bless’s Today screen shows St. Katharine Drexel. Where the US calendar keeps another celebration that day, it is named instead and no rank is given.

| Date | In the US calendar | Color | Mass readings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Wednesday, March 3, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/03/03/) | Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent | Violet | Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9 · Psalm 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20 · See John 6:63c, 68c · Matthew 5:17-19 |
| [Friday, March 3, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/03/03/) | Friday after Ash Wednesday | Violet | Isaiah 58:1-9a · Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19 · Amos 5:14 · Matthew 9:14-15 |

Readings

Reading citations through May 31, 2027 are as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar. Later citations were computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

[March 2 St. Agnes of Bohemia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-agnes-of-bohemia/) [March 4 St. Casimir](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-casimir/)

[All the saints of March](https://blessbible.app/saints/march/) [Born on March 3?](https://blessbible.app/saints/birthday/#03-03) [A saint for every day](https://blessbible.app/saints/)

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St. Katharine Drexel

Remembered on March 3

On this page

1. [Life](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-katharine-drexel/#life)
2. [In the calendar](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-katharine-drexel/#calendar)

In the app

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