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The legacy of the nation’s only Black Catholic Military School lives on in the lives of its alumni.

St. Emma’s Military Academy in Virginia was also founded by St. Katharine Drexel. The campus sat on 2,000 acres of what used to be a Confederate General’s slave plantation that was designed decades prior in 1845. Katharine Drexel later bought the land for the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and transformed it into two private boarding schools exclusively for Black and Native American students.

A number of SPCCS alumni attended St. Emma’s for high school and have fond memories of their time there and the lessons learned there.