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If Rome's Sacred Congregation of Rites can find two new miracles that are attributable to her intercession before God, Mother Seton will become St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Her chances are good. Both Pius XII and John XXIII have been eager to reward U.S. Catholicism with a saint or two, and have looked with favor on her cause. Nor is there much worry about the $50,000 it often takes to finance the investigations that precede canonization. Mother Seton's spiritual daughters, now 11,000 strong, constitute the largest of U.S. religious orders for women, and operate some of the most successful of the nation's Catholic colleges and high schools for girls.
*St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, canonized in 1946, was a U.S. citizen, but she was born in Italy. Also sometimes considered "American" saints are Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brebeuf, and their six companions. Jesuit missionaries who were killed by the Mohawk and Iroquois Indians in the 17th century.