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Elizabeth Ann Seton Research Paper

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I chose to write about St. Elizabeth Ann Seton because I have always loved her very caring, loving, and kind spirit. I also, chose her because my middle name and confirmation name is Elizabeth and I have always felt a connection to her. Elizabeth Ann Bayley was born into a rich family on August 28, 1774 in New York City, two years before the American Revolution. She was born into an Episcopalian family, not Catholic. She 3 when her mom died so she lived a quiet life grew up loving to read novels and the Bible. Her stepmother took her out to help the poor by taking food and other items to them. When Elizabeth was 20 she fell in love with a William Seton in 1794 and became Elizabeth Ann Seton. They had a good life, prospered and had a happy …show more content…

Widowed and poor, Elizabeth stayed in Italy with the Filicchi family, who tried to help her sadness by teaching her the Catholic faith. In 1805, two years after William's death she became a Catholic and devoted her life to God. When she returned to America she needed to support her children so she opened a girl’s school in Boston, and made religion a part of the school. After a few years the archbishop asked Elizabeth to open a girls’ school in Emmitsburg, Maryland. This is when she decided to become a nun (1809). She didn’t go along, 2 of her daughters and sister-in-law came with here to start the school and they became the American Sisters of Charity and in 1810 Elizabeth become Mother Seton. St. Elizabeth was known for helping the poor and sick and started Catholic schools and orphanages. After 16 years of being a Catholic, she died of tuberculosis on January 4, 1821. She was canonized on September 14, 1975; she was also the first native-born American to be canonized. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton is the patron saint of in laws, abortions, widows, the death of parents, and opposition of the church authority. This is the wonderful life of Saint Elizabeth Ann

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