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Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton |
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August 28, 1774 — January 4, 1821
“Faith lifts the staggering soul on one side, hope supports it on the other. Experience says it must be, love says—’Let it Be.' |
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Elizabeth Ann Bayley was born into a wealthy and influential Episcopalian family, the daughter of a physician and was raised in New York in the late 18th century. Her mother died when Elizabeth was three years old. At age nineteen she married wealthy businessman William Seton. About ten years into the marriage, William’s business failed, and soon after, he died of tuberculosis. Elizabeth was left an impoverished widow with five young children. To support her family and educate her children, she opened a school in Boston. Though a private school, she ran it along the lines of a religious community. For years Elizabeth had felt drawn to Catholicism, believing in the Real Presence in the Eucharist and in the lineage of the Church going back to Christ and the Apostles. She came into the Catholic Church on March 14, 1805, alienating many of her strict Episcopalian family. At the invitation of the archbishop, she established a Catholic girls’ school in Baltimore which became the first parochial school in America. To run the system, she founded the sisters of Charity in 1809, the first religious community for women originating in America. Mother Seton was canonized on September 14, 1975, by Pope Paul VI. She was the first native North American to be canonized.
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