{"id":79514,"date":"2026-03-13T13:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=79514"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:51:26","slug":"from-heiress-to-saint-the-radical-life-of-st-katharine-drexel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ar\/learn\/from-heiress-to-saint-the-radical-life-of-st-katharine-drexel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0645\u0646 \u0648\u0631\u064a\u062b\u0629 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u0642\u062f\u064a\u0633\u0629: \u0627\u0644\u062d\u064a\u0627\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0630\u0631\u064a\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u0642\u062f\u064a\u0633\u0629 \u0643\u0627\u062b\u0631\u064a\u0646 \u062f\u0631\u064a\u0643\u0633\u0644"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>St. Katharine Drexel was born in 1858 to a wealthy family in Philadelphia. Five weeks after her birth, her mother died. She and her two sisters were reared by their father, Frank, a successful international banker, and stepmother, Emma \u2014 whom Katharine always considered her mother. Both were devout Catholics and loving parents. The family was generous with the poor \u2014 three times a week they opened their lavish home to those in need, offering them food, clothing, medicine, and\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ar\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe Now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ar\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? 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The family was generous with the poor \u2014 three times a week they opened their lavish home to those in need, offering them food, clothing, medicine, and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-79514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":96951,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ar\/learn\/maryland-parish-pays-off-public-school-lunch-debt-for-entire-county\/","url_meta":{"origin":79514,"position":0},"title":"Maryland parish pays off public school lunch debt for entire county","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"\u064a\u0648\u0644\u064a\u0648 23, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"A Catholic parish in Frederick, Maryland, is putting the Church\u02bcs call to care for the poor into action by eliminating school lunch debt for students across the county, building on years of providing weekend meals to children in need.Since 2014, St. Katharine Drexel Parish has partnered with Yellow Springs Elementary School to provide weekend meals for students who depend on free or reduced-price lunches during the school week. 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