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by Spixxy on February 7th, 2004

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Who is Elizabeth Seton?

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  • by wickedwillie on March 28th, 2004

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    Elizabeth Ann Seton is the first American born saint. She was born in New York City in August of 1774 into a devout Episcopalian family.

    She founded a school for girls in Baltimore. She wanted to teach children, and help the poor. Other women came to help her, including her sister-in-law Rebecca who also converted to Catholicism. Slowly the community of women grew.

    After a few years, they were organized into a religious community called the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph. Elizabeth Ann was chosen to be their first superior. She was called 'Mother Seton.' The new order expanded quickly, and founded hospitals, orphanges, and parochial schools. The Sisters of Charity are still active today, teaching children and helping the poor.

    Saint Elizabeth Bayley Seton died on the 4th of January, 1821. By that time the houses of the Order numbered 20. She was submitted by Cardinal Gibbons, and canonized in 1975 as the first native born American saint.

    More info on http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/19980101/SAINTS/STESETON.HTM

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  • by Leah on June 18th, 2009

    Leah

    St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was the first US Saint, she was also one of the first saints that converted from a Protistant Relgion at a time when Catholics where not welcome in proment familes. She knew John Hancock, and was also a patrot and had a husband that died in the Revolion War.
    She went to Italy after and fell in love with the Church. She and her children where diswilled when she married a Catholic man and became Catholic. Their was only one Catholic Church in New York at that time, later after her second husband died she moved to Maryland and started the first Catholic school in US.

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