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Born in 1774, Elizabeth Bayley grew up in a well-to-do Protestant family and seemed destined for a tranquil life. At age 19 she married William Seton and together they had five children. Tragedy struck when William died of tuberculosis in 1803. Elizabeth learned that her family fortune was lost as well. She converted to Catholicism at a time when Catholics were the object of persecutions in the United States. Her family was shocked by this decision. Elizabeth met Bishop Carroll of Maryland, and he gave her the inspiration to found the American Sisters of Charity and the first American parochial Catholic school. In time her order of sisters flourished, and they established more schools, orphanages and hospitals across the United States. At her early death (46 years old) Mother Seton's congregation numbered twenty-one communities throughout the country.
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Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Juvenile literature, Christian saints, Biography, Church schools, Christian women saints, Nuns, Sisters of Charity (New York, N.Y.), Seton, elizabeth ann, saint, 1774-1821, Women saints, Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, SaintsPlaces
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Mother Seton: First American-Born Saint (Archway Paperback Editions)
September 1976, Pocket Books
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0671297856 9780671297855
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