Elizabeth Ann Seton
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Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was an American Catholic educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. Born in New York and reared as an Episcopalian, she married and had five chil
Elizabeth Ann Seton portrait by Amabilia Filicchi
Elizabeth Ann Seton, from Appleton's Cyclopaedia
The Seton home in New York City was located at the site on which a church now stands in her honor, with the adjacent James Watson House serving as the rectory.
St. Peter's, Barclay Street, 1785
The Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of New York, best known as the Sisters of Charity of New York, is a religious congregation of sisters in the Catholic Church whose primary missions are
Elizabeth Ann Seton
…first Catholic girls' school in the nation in Emmitsburg, Maryland. There she also founded the first American congregation of religious sisters, the Sisters of Charity. On September 14, 1975, Seton was the first person born in what would become the United States to be canonized by the Catholic Church…
St. Patrick's Convent and Girls' School
Forrest's Font Hill by the Hudson River
Sister Irene and children at New York Foundling, 1888