St.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
1774-1821
In 1975 Elizabeth Ann Seton became the first American to be canonized
as a saint. Originally raised Episcopalian, she married and had five
children. In 1805, two years after her husband's
death, she converted to Catholicism.
Seton established the first Catholic girls' school in the nation in
Emmitsburg, Maryland. There she also founded the first American
congregation of religious sisters, the Sisters of Charity.
