TY - BOOK AU - O'Donnell,Catherine TI - Elizabeth Seton: American Saint SN - 9781501726019 AV - BX4700.S4 O36 2018 U1 - 271/.9102 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Christian saints KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Biography & Autobiography KW - New York History KW - Religious Studies KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious KW - bisacsh KW - 1800s KW - 19th century America KW - 19th century American culture KW - 19th century American economy KW - 19th century American expansion KW - 19th century American immigration KW - 19th century US KW - 19th century United States KW - 19th century KW - American 1800s KW - American 19th century events KW - American 19th century history KW - American 19th century politics KW - American 19th century slavery KW - American 19th century society KW - American 19th century KW - American history KW - Canonization KW - Catholic KW - Christian martyrs KW - Christian saints biography KW - Conversion KW - Daughters of Charity KW - Education KW - Emmitsburg KW - First American-Born Saint KW - Founder KW - John Carroll KW - Maryland KW - Mother Seton KW - New York KW - Orphanage KW - Philanthropy KW - Pluralism KW - Saint KW - Sisters of Charity KW - Widow KW - Women in American Catholicism KW - biography N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Cast of Characters --; Prologue: Today --; PART 1: A NEW YORK LIFE --; PART 2: A CRISIS OF FAITH --; PART 3: TRANSITIONS --; PART 4: A SISTERHOOD AT EMMITSBURG --; PART 5: BECOMING MOTHER SETON --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - From socialite to saint, it was an extraordinary journey for Seton, one gracefully chronicled in Catherine O'Donnell's richly textured new biography. A remarkable biography of a remarkable woman.― Wall Street JournalIn 1975, two centuries after her birth, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton, making her the first saint to be a native-born citizen of the United States in the Roman Catholic Church. Seton came of age in Manhattan as the city and her family struggled to rebuild themselves after the Revolution, explored both contemporary philosophy and Christianity, converted to Catholicism from her native Episcopalian faith, and built the St. Joseph’s Academy and Free School in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Hers was an exemplary early American life of struggle, ambition, questioning, and faith, and in this flowing biography, Catherine O’Donnell has given Seton her due.O’Donnell places Seton squarely in the context of the dynamic and risky years of the American and French Revolutions and their aftermath. Just as Seton’s dramatic life was studded with hardship, achievement, and grief so were the social, economic, political, and religious scenes of the Early American Republic in which she lived. O’Donnell provides the reader with a strong sense of this remarkable woman’s intelligence and compassion as she withstood her husband’s financial failures and untimely death, undertook a slow conversion to Catholicism, and struggled to reconcile her single-minded faith with her respect for others’ different choices. The fruit of her labors were the creation of a spirituality that embraced human connections as well as divine love and the American Sisters of Charity, part of an enduring global community with a specific apostolate for teaching.The trove of correspondence, journals, reflections, and community records that O’Donnell weaves together throughout Elizabeth Seton provides deep insight into her life and her world. Each source enriches our understanding of women’s friendships and choices, illuminates the relationships within the often-opaque world of early religious communities, and upends conventional wisdom about the ways Americans of different faiths competed and collaborated during the nation’s earliest years. Through her close and sympathetic reading of Seton’s letters and journals, O’Donnell reveals Seton the person and shows us how, with both pride and humility, she came to understand her own importance as Mother Seton in the years before her death in 1821 UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501726019 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501726019 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501726019/original ER -