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The Eleventh Day of Christmastide

January 4, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Elizabeth Seton was born on August 28, 1774, of a wealthy and distinguished Episcopalian family. She was baptized in the Episcopal faith and was a faithful adherent of the Episcopal Church until her conversion to Catholicism.

She established her first Catholic school in Baltimore in 1808; in 1809, she established a religious community in Emmitsburg, Maryland. After seeing the expansion of her small community of teaching sisters to New York and as far as St. Loius, she died on January 4, 1821, and was declared a saint by Pope Paul VI on September 14, 1975. She is the first native born American to be canonized a saint.

• Day Eleven activity (Story Time)
• Day Eleven recipe (Colonial Wassail)

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We have several books about St. Elizabeth Ann: for obvious reasons, she’s very popular at the Seton School, from whom we buy a lot of our curriculum. DP and I tried to go to the Shrine at Emmitsburg once, when we were visiting my parents in D.C., but we got lost and went to Manassas instead.

Nice museum in Manassas, and excellent antique shops for Civil War people.