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Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton SC (August 28, 1774 – January 4, 1821) was a Catholic religious sister in the United States and an educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. After her death, she became the first person born in what would become the United States to be canonized by the Catholic Church (September 14, 1975). She also established the first Catholic girls' school in the nation in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where she likewise founded the first American congregation of religious sisters, the Sisters of Charity. (Full article...)
Prayer: We must pray literally without ceasing--without ceasing--in every occurrence and employment of our lives . . . that prayer of the heart which is independent of place or situation, or which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.

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Patronage: Catholic Schools; seafarers; widows; Shreveport, Louisiana; and the State of Maryland
See also: Apollinaris Syncletica; Angela of Foligno; Manuel González García, Spain; Zdislava Berka, Czech Republic