Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity
Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity

Author: Alma Power-Waters

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780898707663

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A biography of the first American saint, focusing on her deeds and contributions to American Catholicism.

Mother Seton and Her Sisters of Charity
Mother Seton and Her Sisters of Charity

Author: Joseph B (Joseph Bernard) 1899- Code

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781014157034

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American Saint
American Saint

Author: Joan Barthel

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1250037158

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In this riveting biography of Elizabeth Seton critically acclaimed and bestselling author Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life featured wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774. Her father was the chief health officer for the Port of New York and she lived down the block from Alexander Hamilton. She danced at George Washington's sixty-fifth Birthday Ball wearing cream slippers, monogrammed. Catholicism was illegal in New York when she was born; Catholic priests seen in the city were arrested, sometimes hung. When Elizabeth and her wealthy husband Will sailed to Italy in a doomed attempt to cure his tuberculosis, she and her family were quarantined in a damp dungeon. And when Elizabeth later became a Catholic, she was so scorned that people talked of burning down her house. American Saint is the inspiring story of a brave woman who forged the way for the other women who followed and who made a name for herself in a world entirely ruled by men. Elizabeth resisted male clerical control of her religious order, as nuns are doing today, and the publication of her story could not be more timely. Maya Angelou has contributed the foreword.