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elizabeth
Title: elizabeth
Category: History
Details: Words: 1949 | Pages: 8.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
elizabeth
Elizabeth Ann Seton was the foundress and first superior of the Sisters of Charity in the United
States. She was born in New York City on August 28, 1774, of non-Catholic parents of high
position. She died at Emmitsburg, Maryland, on January 4, 1821. Her father, Dr. Richard Bayley,
was the first professor of anatomy at Columbia College and eminent for his work as health officer of
the Port of New York. Her mother, Catherine Charlton, daughter of an Anglican minister of Staten
Island, NY, died when Elizabeth was …showed first 85 words of 1949 total…
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the Cincinnati community of six sisters. With the Newark and Halifax offshoots of the New York community and the Greenburg
foundation from Cincinnati, the sisters originating from Mother Seton's foundation number (1911) about 6000. The original Emittsburg
community now wearing the cornette and observing the rule just as St. Vincent gave it, naturally surpasses any of the others in
number. It is found in about 30 dioceses in the United States, and forms a part of the worldwide sisterhood, whilst the others are
rather diocesan communities.
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