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Comprehensive biography provides many insights on first American saint


This is the cover of the book Elizabeth Seton: American Saint by Catherine O Donnell. The book is reviewed by Brian T. Olszewski. (CNS)
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Elizabeth Seton: American Saint by Catherine O Donnell. Cornell University Press (Ithaca, New York, and London, 2018). 508 pp, $36.95.
Most Catholics have probably heard of or read about St. Elizabeth Seton, the first American-born citizen to be declared a saint, as following her canonization in 1975, it was not uncommon for new or merged parishes and schools to be named in her honor.
A few paragraphs about her in various lives of the saints compilations note her journey from wealth to poverty, married to widowed, and Episcopal Church to Catholic Church. They feature her founding of the Sisters of Charity and the establishment of the nation s first free Catholic school for girls. ....

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