The First American Sister of Charity: Elizabeth Bayley Seton

Written by John Clement Reville

Narrated by LibriVox Community

This is a picturesque and moving account of the life and work of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821), the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. This widowed mother of five established schools in New York and Maryland and was the first to found a congregation of Religious Sisters in the United States, the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph, whose motherhouse stands today in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

• Language: English
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014