In: Psychology
True or False if false state why:
While she initially committed to becoming a nun and serving the poor, Austrian Catholic immigrant descendant Philadelphian Katherine Drexel soon found her vow of poverty to be tiresome, and she subsequently returned to her life of wealth and privilege in Philadelphia and built a spectacular mansion with all of her millions. ____
Ans. false
In 1884 she traveled with her father and sisters to the western states, where they witnessed the poverty and destitution of Native Americans on reservation lands. When her father died in 1885, she and her sisters inherited a vast fortune. Believing that all people should have access to education, she continued the work earlier undertaken by the family of founding and endowing schools and churches for African Americans and Native Americans in the South and West. In 1889 she became a novice with the Sisters of Mercy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In February 1891 she took her final vows and, with a few companions, founded the Blessed Sacrament Sisters for Indians and Colored People, of which she was superior general. The community moved from the Drexel summer home in Torresdale, Pennsylvania, to the new St. Elizabeth’s Convent in Cornwells Heights, Pennsylvania, the next year. The community received final papal approval in May 1913.