If the report is true, the Vatican has decided to canonize Elizabeth Ann Seton (or Isabel Anna Seton as reported in the despatches from Madrid, where the report originated). She will be the first American Saint.
Elizabeth Ann Bayley, born in 1774, was the daughter of the first professor of anatomy at Columbia College, the first health officer of New York City. Her parents were Protestant.
At the age of 20 she married W. Magee Seton, who subsequently went to Pisa, Italy, for his health. Soon after he died, leaving her with five children, she...
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