Hello, welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Mary McGeehan. I am joined with Dr. Chris Mooney.

Thank you for joining us. Thank you, Mary. Thanks for having me. It's a joy to learn from you here at the Guston Institute.

We are going to talk about another life of the saint today. We're going to focus on St. Elizabeth and

Seton. Her feast day is January 4th. And we were just mentioning how she is such a well-known

name. So many people know of her, at least her name, but sometimes we don't actually know her

story or where she came from her, what, you know, what impact she made.

So where should we start about Elizabeth?

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing because she's a remarkable saint.

So there's so many things that we could say about her.

And I think this is one reason why she's so well known.

She is the first U.S. citizen to become a saint.

Okay.

She founded the country's first Catholic girls school and the first American congregation

of religious sisters, which still exists today.

The sisters of charity.

She is, I was kind of struck by all the things that she's known as the patron saint of

Catholic schools, patron saint of widows, patron saint of the loss of parents and patron saint of the loss of children,

patron saint of people who are ridiculed for their piety, patron saint of people who have in-law

problems.

Really?

And it's because, as I think people will hopefully can get a taste of, you know, listening to

this, she lived a remarkable life.

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