St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Research Paper

The saint I have chosen is, Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton. She was born on August 28, 1774 and is a real daughter of the American Revolution, which she was born two years before. Her father was a physician and her mother was the daughter of an Episcopalian minister (“Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton,” 2011). Saint Elizabeth got married in 1794 to a wealthy young man, William Seton. They were married for 8 years until his death and had two sons and three daughters together. Saint Elizabeth worked with charitable organizations in her home city and converted to Catholicism after traveling to Italy with her husband in 1803. She and her husband were traveling in hopes to improve her husband’s health. The Italian climate was supposed to help him out, but he died shortly after arriving to Italy. While traveling she kept a journal that we can learn of her heroic effort to sustain the drooping spirits of her husband during the voyage and until his death on December 27, 1803. The Filicchi brothers and their wives helped Elizabeth out tremendously and were very kind to her. Through this family she felt her first connection with and to the Catholic Church. Up until Elizabeth had met them she read the daily Scriptures and spent time …show more content…
Saint Elizabeth believed very deeply into the teachings of the Catholic Church (“Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton,” 2011). She believed in every truth of the Church of Jesus, and she practiced every value that his Church would teach (“Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton,” 2011). She followed everything that was taught, she did not choose which virtues or doctrines she would follow. She was chosen as a saint because she expressed very strongly her devotion to the teachings of Christ (“Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton,” 2011). She knew that being a mother, a nun, and a wife was a very special