Biography of Elizabeth Bayley Seton, 1774-1821, who spent her childhood in New York City during the Revolutionary War and founded the first native sisterhood in America.

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.

Excerpt from Elizabeth Seton: Foundress of the American Sisters of Charity, Her Life and Work I praise Thee while Thy providence, In childhood frail, I trace, For blessings given, ere dawning sense Could seek or scan Thy grace. Newman: A Thanksgiving. There stands, at the threshold of the nineteenth century, the forerunner of that noble band of confessors who, during it, renounced honors and wealth, and friendship, and high places, and pleasant lives, for Christ's sake, the figure of a woman, worn and wasted with conflict, yet touched with the radiance of victory; one who, chosen by God to do a great work in the new country that was to repair to the Church the losses inflicted upon her by the schism of the sixteenth century, shows throughout her life the special guidance that He vouchsafes to souls faithful to His inspirations, and the strength and consolation He imparts to those who suffer for His sake. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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.

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.