The Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Museum

he first native-born American to be canonized a saint in the Roman Catholic Church is a woman — a woman whose life paralleled the history of our country.

Elizabeth Seton lived every role possible for a woman. She was a daughter, wife, mother, widow, single parent, convert, a grieving parent and the founder of the first congregation of women religious in America, the Sisters of Charity.

Canonized in Rome in 1975, she brought honor and distinction to New York City, the city of her birth.

On the eve of her canonization, Terence Cardinal Cooke, then Archbishop of New York, wrote:

	In Elizabeth Ann Seton we have a saint for our times

	In Elizabeth Ann Seton we have a woman of faith for a time of doubt and uncertainty

	In Elizabeth Ann Seton we have a woman of love for a time of coldness and division

	In Elizabeth Ann Seton we have a woman of hope for a time of crisis and discouragement

	Thanks be to God for this saintly daughter of New York, for this valiant woman of God's Church!