Elizabeth Ann Seton

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United States, Saint
August 28, 1774January, 4, 1821.

Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, SC, was the first person born in what would become the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church . She established the first Catholic girls' school in the nation in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where she also founded the first American congregation of religious sisters, the Sisters of Charity.

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