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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity

Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity

Power-Waters, Alma

Paperback

Series: Vision Books

Religious BiographiesCatholicismGeneral Christianity

Publisher Price: $12.95

ISBN10: 0898707668
ISBN13: 9780898707663
Publisher: Ignatius Pr
Published: Jul 19 2000
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
In 1975, Mother Elizabeth Seton was canonized as America's first native-born Roman Catholic saint. This Vision Book tells the inspiring true story of the life of Elizabeth Bayley Seton from her childhood in a distinguished New York family to her becoming a sister and foundress of an order of nuns.

Born in 1774, Elizabeth Bayley grew up in a well-to-do Protestant family and seemed destined for a tranquil life. At age 19 she married William Seton and together they had five children. Tragedy struck when William died of tuberculosis in 1803. Elizabeth learned that her family fortune was lost as well. She converted to Catholicism at a time when Catholics were the object of persecutions in the United States. Her family was shocked by this decision. Elizabeth met Bishop Carroll of Maryland, and he gave her the inspiration to found the American Sisters of Charity and the first American parochial Catholic school. In time her order of sisters flourished, and they established more schools, orphanages and hospitals across the United States. At her early death (46 years old) Mother Seton's congregation numbered twenty-one communities throughout the country. Illustrated

A series which should be found wherever there are young Catholic readers.

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