After the death of her father, American financier and philanthropist Francis Anthony Drexel, in 1885 St. Katharine Drexel and her two sisters inherited an estimated $15.5 million. By the time of her own death in 1955, she had used more than $12 million of her inheritance to fund charitable and apostolic missions, including founding schools and churches for African Americans and Native Americans.
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