Emmitsburg, Maryland
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Emmitsburg is a town in Frederick County, Maryland, United States, 0.3 miles south of the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania.
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Seton shrine basilica Emmitsburg MD1
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Emmitsburg town square MD1
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
Emmitsburg, Maryland
…1798. After the American Revolutionary War, Catholic missionary Rev. Jean Dubois established a mission church, then a seminary, at Emmitsburg. Later Elizabeth Ann Seton established a convent, with a school and hospital. Soon, the number of Methodists in Emmitsburg led to the formation of a circuit around town, rather…
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