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Mother Seton

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Noun1.Mother Seton - United States religious leader who was the first person born in the United States to be canonized (1774-1821)


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In 1986, she received the Mother Seton Award for her contributions to religious education in the diocesan schools in Worcester.
Mother Seton House is the home of Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born Roman Catholic saint, who founded a school, as well as the Daughters of Charity.
But even briefly opened it will show a long line of women--Saint Scholastica, herself, right up to Mother Seton, Mother Cabrini, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, and Mother Teresa--who in founding orders have not only worked out their own salvation but directed women, and men, too, to a new aspect of sanctity.
 
 
 
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