Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, the first American-born saint, converted to Catholicism, became a prominent educator and faith leader, and was credited with three miracles.
Seton was offered a teaching job at St. Mary’s College by Catholic leaders"She accepted and left New York for good on June 8, 1808," notes the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Baltimore.
MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY STUDENTS LAUNCH PROTESTS AFTER SCHOOL AXES MAJORS LIKE MATH, ENGLISH, RELIGIOUS STUDIESTwo of her daughters, just teens at the time, died of tuberculosis: Anna Maria in 1812 and Rebecca in 1816. Then, Ann Theresa O’Neill, just four years old, was cured of acute lymphatic leukemia in Baltimore on Easter week in 1952, after Sister Mary Alice prayed to Seton on the toddler’s behalf.
"Even decades later, renowned hematologists and oncologists would be unable to explain her recovery." Her contributions to Catholic education live on in schools she helped found in Maryland, and in those developed with her curriculum or bearing her name across the United States, in the Philippines andSeton Hall, a Catholic university in New Jersey known nationally for its basketball program, was founded by her nephew, the Rev. James Roosevelt Bayley — and named in her honor.
"In the United States, the Daughters of Charity staff hospitals, child care institutions, home for the aged and handicapped, and schools at every level," the group notes.
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