Elizabeth Ann Seton
First native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1774-1821) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 46
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 children with her husband William Seton.
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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
Mother Seton's tomb in Emmitsburg
Sign of the New York shrine
Statue in St. Raymond's Cemetery, Bronx, New York
Seton High School, Cincinnati, OhioAwards
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She converted to Catholicism in 1805 and established the 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.
