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The First American Sister of Charity: Elizabeth Bayley Seton

LibriVox recording of THE FIRST AMERICAN SISTER OF CHARITY: ELIZABETH BAYLEY SETON, by JOHN CLEMENT REVILLE. Read by Dave7. 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. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (43MB)

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