1663 Bristol Pike, Cornwells Heights, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Bucks.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 21, 1978. NRIS 78002352.
3 contributing buildings.Also known as:
St. Elizabeth's Convent was a historic Roman Catholic convent located at 1663 Bristol Pike in Cornwells Heights, Bensalem Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. From 1892 to 2017 it served as the motherhouse of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, founded by St. Katharine Drexel as the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People.
The complex was also home to the Saint Katharine Drexel Mission Center and National Shrine. Saint Katharine was entombed in a crypt in the chapel until the entire crypt was moved to the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia and established as a new shrine.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995162