James Roosevelt Bayley
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James Roosevelt Bayley was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Newark and as Archbishop of Baltimore.
Bayley, 1855–1865
St. Andrew's, Harlem, where Bayley was rector after his Episcopalian ordination
The main church of the Certosa di San Martino, which impressed Bayley as the most beautiful in Naples
The nave and main altar of the Church of the Gesù in Rome, where Bayley was received into the Catholic Church
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, 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