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Show GIVES HER LIFE AND FORTUNE. Catherine Orvxt'l ll.vutes Herself to La-Imr La-Imr Anions lnUiuii. ami Negroes. In Hie name of nur Iird ami Suviuiir Jrsua Christ, and under tle protection of his immaculate im-maculate mother, Mary, ever virgin. I, t'allio-r'ne t'allio-r'ne llrexel, culled In religion Sister Mary Cuihcrine, do vow and promise to tiod poverty, clia.-dily and ols-dience, and to devote my lil'o to the service tif the Indiuus and tlie -floruit race, and 1 he proM-culiou until death of the duties of tins Order of tlio Messed .Sacrament, accordi-nr to its approved rule and constitution, constitu-tion, under the nutiiorily nml in the presence of you, my Lord and Very KiUt Uevereud lather in tiod, Johu J. Hyuu. Such were the solemn words in which Catherine Drexel, the owner of (7,000, iiiiii MISS CATHERINE DKEXEL. 000, voweil the rest of her life to good works in the chapel of Mercy convent, Pittsburg, Pa. Only tho sisters, the proper dignitaries of the church and her brother-in-law, W. II. Smith, were present. pres-ent. After prayers and the singing of the gospel for the occasion she was led to the railing, where she knelt and waa asked by Archbishop Ilyan: "My child, what do you demand?" "I will pay my vows to tho Lord, in the sight of his people in the courts of the house of the Lord," washer reply. The ceremony was then completed and the vow taken. Sister Catherine, who lias been for some time a novitiate in tho Mercy convent, will bo the mother superior su-perior of a new order, the "Sisterhood of the Blessed Sacrament," whose first convent con-vent is to be erected at once at Andalusia, Anda-lusia, on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad, on a hill overlooking tho Delaware Dela-ware river. The Into Francis A. Drexel, of rhiliv-delphia, rhiliv-delphia, left to his three daughters an estate of $lo,000,0)0. One of these sisters sis-ters died a few months since, and most of her estate goes to the other two. Of these one married Edward do V. Morrell, and tho other, now Sister Catherine, is 2S years old, with an income of iJ.oOO.OOO a year, all of which is to be used for the ; church and charity. Her brother-in-law manages the estate, and it is scarcely j liecensury to add that his mail is bur- dened wiih applications for aid from all j parts of the country. Most of Sister Catherine' work aad money is already devoted to Indians and negroes, and the new sisterhood will inako thai their spe- I cialty. j |