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The National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton is a U.S. religious site and educational center in Emmitsburg, Maryland, that pays tribute to the life and mission of Elizabeth Ann Seton (August 28, 1774 – January 4, 1821), the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
As the home to the first American-born saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, the archdiocese also includes several sites associated with her life and works: National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, the site of Seton's tomb; Lower chapel at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, where Seton gave her vows of chastity and poverty in 1808
Relic: bone fragment of St. Maria Goretti. She is reputed to have been killed by a would-be rapist to whom she refused to submit. As she laid dying, tradition holds that she forgave her attacker. Relic: bone fragment of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. She is the first native-born American to be canonized by the Catholic Church.
Mother Seton is now buried in the nearby basilica that bears her name, but she was previously buried in a brick Gothic Revival mausoleum in St. Joseph's cemetery. The Seton Shrine also includes the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and the adjacent St. Joseph's Provincial House, but they are outside of the boundaries of ...
The first parish named in her honor, Blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton, was established in 1963 in Shrub Oak, New York, with a school opening in 1966, staffed by the Sisters of Charity. Upon her canonization in 1975, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church was established in Crofton, Maryland , [ 30 ] in the same Archdiocese of Baltimore where she ...
St. Thomas More High School (9–12) Rapid City St. Thomas More Middle School (6–8) St. Elizabeth Seton Elementary (K-5) St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Child Development (3K-PK) St. Francis Mission: Sapa Un Jesuit Academy (K-8) St. Francis, Rosebud Indian Reservation
Church built 1883; now part of Holy Family Parish [3] Our Lady of Mount Carmel 75 Morris St, New Brunswick A national Hispanic parish [4] St. John 29 Abeel St, New Brunswick Part of Church of the Visitation Parish St. Joseph Corner of Maple and Somerset St, New Brunswick Now part of Holy Family Parish St. Ladislaus 213 Somerset St, New Brunswick
The Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth are a Roman Catholic apostolic congregation of pontifical right, based in the Convent Station area of Morris Township, New Jersey, USA. The religious order was established in 1859 in Newark, New Jersey, following the example of Elizabeth Ann Seton's community that was founded in 1809 in Emmitsburg ...