St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was the first native-born American to be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. Born Elizabeth Bayley in New York City in 1774, she was raised Episcopalian and later converted to Catholicism after her husband’s death in 1803. She founded a religious community for women in 1809 that received official approval in 1812 as the Sisters of Charity, the first American religious society.
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