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The First American Sister of Charity: Elizabeth Bayley Seton

Title	The First American Sister of Charity: Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Medium	Digital Talking Book
Names	Reville, John Clement
Book Number	DBX1027
Title Status	Active
Annotation	A quaint and poignant story of the life of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821), the first native-born citizen of America to be canonized a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. This solitarily mother of five reputable schools in New York and Maryland and was the first to form a congregation of Religious Sisters in the United States, the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph, whose religious house still exists in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Elizabeth Ann Bayley was born on August 28, 1774, the 2nd child of a generally well known couple, Dr. Richard Bayley and Catherine Charlton of New York City. The Bayley and Charlton families were some of the first European immigrants in the New York zone. Her father's parents were French Huguenots and settled in New Rochelle, New York. As Chief Health Officer for the Port of New York, Dr. Bayley appeared to settlers arriving in port from vessels into Staten Island, and tended for New Yorkers when yellow fever spread all throughout the city. Dr. Bayley afterwards became the first educator of anatomy at Columbia College. Her mother was the daughter of a Church of England minster who became a rector of St. Andrew's Church on Staten Island for 30 years, and Elizabeth grew up in what would gradually turn into - in the years later the American Revolution - the Episcopal Church. After battling in many exasperating and arduous years, in 1809, Elizabeth was invited by the Sulpicians and lived at Emmitsburg, Maryland. A year after she founded the Saint Joseph's Academy and Free School, a school devoted to the instruction of Catholic girls. The rest of her life was spent in running and working up the new congregation. Mother Seton was defined as a charismatic and refined woman.
Local Subject	Biography
	Biography - Catholics
	Biography - Nuns
	Biography - Religious Orders
	Biography - Saints
	Biography - Sisters of Charity
	Biography - Women
	Biography - Women saints
Language	English
Released	2011
Publication Info	online 2011 Librivox

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