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Elizabeth
Ann Bayley
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August 28, 1774, even as the delegates to the First Continental
Congress passed through New York City, a little girl, destined
to become the first native-born American canonized saint,
was born.
Her
parents, Dr. Richard and Catherine Bayley, named their daughter
Elizabeth Ann. When she was nineteen, Elizabeth Bayley married
William Magee Seton. The marriage united two families prominent
in the history of the City of New York.
Elizabeth
and William Seton had five children. As a young wife and mother,
and a devout member of the Episcopal Church, Elizabeth joined
with other young matrons in service to the poor, especially
widows and orphans. She and her sister-in-law, Rebecca Seton,
became known as the "Protestant Sisters of Charity."
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