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Author | : Catherine O'Donnell |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2018-09-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1501726021 |
In 1975, two centuries after her birth, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton, making her the first saint to be a native-born citizen of the United States in the Roman Catholic Church. Seton came of age in Manhattan as the city and her family struggled to rebuild themselves after the Revolution, explored both contemporary philosophy and Christianity, converted to Catholicism from her native Episcopalian faith, and built the St. Joseph’s Academy and Free School in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Hers was an exemplary early American life of struggle, ambition, questioning, and faith, and in this flowing biography, Catherine O’Donnell has given Seton her due. O’Donnell places Seton squarely in the context of the dynamic and risky years of the American and French Revolutions and their aftermath. Just as Seton’s dramatic life was studded with hardship, achievement, and grief so were the social, economic, political, and religious scenes of the Early American Republic in which she lived. O’Donnell provides the reader with a strong sense of this remarkable woman’s intelligence and compassion as she withstood her husband’s financial failures and untimely death, undertook a slow conversion to Catholicism, and struggled to reconcile her single-minded faith with her respect for others’ different choices. The fruit of her labors were the creation of a spirituality that embraced human connections as well as divine love and the American Sisters of Charity, part of an enduring global community with a specific apostolate for teaching. The trove of correspondence, journals, reflections, and community records that O’Donnell weaves together throughout Elizabeth Seton provides deep insight into her life and her world. Each source enriches our understanding of women’s friendships and choices, illuminates the relationships within the often-opaque world of early religious communities, and upends conventional wisdom about the ways Americans of different faiths competed and collaborated during the nation’s earliest years. Through her close and sympathetic reading of Seton’s letters and journals, O’Donnell reveals Seton the person and shows us how, with both pride and humility, she came to understand her own importance as Mother Seton in the years before her death in 1821.
Author | : Joan Barthel |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2014-03-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250037158 |
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.
Author | : Catherine O'Donnell |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2018-09-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1501726013 |
In 1975, two centuries after her birth, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton, making her the first saint to be a native-born citizen of the United States in the Roman Catholic Church. Seton came of age in Manhattan as the city and her family struggled to rebuild themselves after the Revolution, explored both contemporary philosophy and Christianity, converted to Catholicism from her native Episcopalian faith, and built the St. Joseph’s Academy and Free School in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Hers was an exemplary early American life of struggle, ambition, questioning, and faith, and in this flowing biography, Catherine O’Donnell has given Seton her due. O’Donnell places Seton squarely in the context of the dynamic and risky years of the American and French Revolutions and their aftermath. Just as Seton’s dramatic life was studded with hardship, achievement, and grief so were the social, economic, political, and religious scenes of the Early American Republic in which she lived. O’Donnell provides the reader with a strong sense of this remarkable woman’s intelligence and compassion as she withstood her husband’s financial failures and untimely death, undertook a slow conversion to Catholicism, and struggled to reconcile her single-minded faith with her respect for others’ different choices. The fruit of her labors were the creation of a spirituality that embraced human connections as well as divine love and the American Sisters of Charity, part of an enduring global community with a specific apostolate for teaching. The trove of correspondence, journals, reflections, and community records that O’Donnell weaves together throughout Elizabeth Seton provides deep insight into her life and her world. Each source enriches our understanding of women’s friendships and choices, illuminates the relationships within the often-opaque world of early religious communities, and upends conventional wisdom about the ways Americans of different faiths competed and collaborated during the nation’s earliest years. Through her close and sympathetic reading of Seton’s letters and journals, O’Donnell reveals Seton the person and shows us how, with both pride and humility, she came to understand her own importance as Mother Seton in the years before her death in 1821.
Author | : Joseph I. Dirvin |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780898702699 |
Elizabeth Seton is an important saint for our times: she was a convert, an American, a wife and mother as well as a widow, the foundress of an order (the Sisters of Charity) and an administrator. Fr. Dirvin, an authority on Saint Elizabeth Seton, takes writings, correspondence, and recollections of Seton to reveal her deep life of faith and prayer. A moving biography and an inspiring record of Elizabeth Seton's interior journey that gives us a profound spiritual portrait of a multifaceted saint.
Author | : Julie Walters |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780809166923 |
A fictionalized young adult biography of Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821), New York socialite, wife, mother, convert and foundress of the American Sisters of Charity and the first U.S.-born saint.Ages 11 and up.
Author | : Jeanne Marie |
Publisher | : Pauline Books and Media |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2019-02-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0819871753 |
The Encounter the Saints series offers intermediate readers down-to-earth portrayals of the saints. Each story vividly recreates for the reader the saint's place of origin, family life, and corresponding historical events.
Author | : Alma Power-Waters |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780898707663 |
A biography of the first American saint, focusing on her deeds and contributions to American Catholicism.
Author | : Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anne Merwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2015-03-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780819823809 |
Anne Merwin is a former president of the Mother Seton House in Baltimore, Like Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, she has been a debutante, wife, mother, Episcopalian, convert to Catholicism, and a resident of New York City and Baltimore. She has worked in adult faith formation and is an Associate of the Sisters of Charity of New York. She lives in Maryland not far from Emmitsburg, where mother Seton founded the Sisters of Charity in 1809.
Author | : Mary Hilaire Tavenner |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2008-09-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1465320180 |
My Friendship with St. Elizabeth Ann Seton is a book about a unique relationship between someone born in 1774 and the author, born in 1948. It is the adventures of Mary Hilaire (Sally Lynne) Tavenner and the fi rst native born American saint throughout the past forty years. In this book you will learn the life of Mother Seton, read a fi rst hand account of her canonization, as recorded by one of the 14,000 Americans present in Rome for the event. The reader will learn about the process and documented miracles, which helped to bring about her canonization. You will also read behind the scene memoirs of a $3 million docudrama produced by Hollywood on the life of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. The book relays many personal experiences, anecdotes and information unique to this particular collection of stories. If you have ever had a devotion to a particular saint, you will enjoy reading the adventures of Hilaire (Sally) Tavenner and Elizabeth Bayley Seton.