Fox News Focuses on First American Saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton

| 03/14/2023

By: The Good Newsroom

“She was very strong in her Anglican faith, but felt this mysterial tug to the Roman Catholic faith, at a cost of great sacrifice. She embraced that faith here in New York,” said Cardinal Timothy Dolan

A youthful St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first native-born American to be canonized, is portrayed in this painting by Joseph Dawley. A widowed mother of five, she founded the Sisters of Charity. Her legacy includes several religious communities with thousands of sisters, who serve in schools, social service centers, and hospitals throughout the world. Raised in a wealthy Episcopalian family, she entered the Catholic Church March 14, 1805. (CNS file photo)

A recent Fox News article focused on the life and work of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, also known as Mother Elizabeth Ann, the first native-born American saint.

“‘She was an extraordinarily erudite, strong, independent woman, a socialite from a very respected family, and a patriot very interested in the events of the day and the fight for the independence of the new nation,’ Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, told Fox News Digital,” the report said.

“‘She was also a loving wife and mother. She was very strong in her Anglican faith, but felt this mysterial tug to the Roman Catholic faith, at a cost of great sacrifice. She embraced that faith here in New York,'” Cardinal Dolan told Fox News.

Mother Elizabeth Ann was beatified on Dec. 18, 1959, and canonized on Sept. 4, 1975, during the reign of Pope Paul VI.

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