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"A fascinating biography" of Elizabeth Seton, who shocked high society by converting to Catholicismāa faith that was illegal in New York when she was born (
Booklist).
In this riveting biography of the first American saint, Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life encompassed wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774āwhen Catholicism was illegal and priests in the city were arrested, and sometimes hanged. Her father was the chief health officer for the Port of New York, and she lived down the block from Alexander Hamilton. She danced at George Washington's sixty-fifth Birthday Ball in cream slippers, monogrammed.
When Elizabeth and her husband sailed to Italy in a doomed attempt to cure his tuberculosis, she and her family were quarantined in a damp dungeon. And when, after she was widowed, Elizabeth became a Catholic, she was so scorned that people talked of burning down her house. American Saint is the inspiring story of a brave woman who forged the way for other women who followed and who made a name for herself in a world entirely ruled by men. Founder of the Sisters of Charity, she resisted male clerical control of her religious orderāand she also started America's first Catholic school, laying the foundation of an educational system that would help countless children thrive in a new nation.
"CompellingĀ .Ā .Ā . an exquisite story of Seton's inspiring life.Ā .Ā .Ā . Readers interested in Catholic history and U.S. history should not overlook this important biography." ā Publishers Weekly
"Barthel is a fine and insightful observer of this larger-than-life woman who was so far ahead two hundred years ago that we're still catching up with her." āGloria Steinem
Includes a foreword by Maya Angelou
In this riveting biography of the first American saint, Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life encompassed wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774āwhen Catholicism was illegal and priests in the city were arrested, and sometimes hanged. Her father was the chief health officer for the Port of New York, and she lived down the block from Alexander Hamilton. She danced at George Washington's sixty-fifth Birthday Ball in cream slippers, monogrammed.
When Elizabeth and her husband sailed to Italy in a doomed attempt to cure his tuberculosis, she and her family were quarantined in a damp dungeon. And when, after she was widowed, Elizabeth became a Catholic, she was so scorned that people talked of burning down her house. American Saint is the inspiring story of a brave woman who forged the way for other women who followed and who made a name for herself in a world entirely ruled by men. Founder of the Sisters of Charity, she resisted male clerical control of her religious orderāand she also started America's first Catholic school, laying the foundation of an educational system that would help countless children thrive in a new nation.
"CompellingĀ .Ā .Ā . an exquisite story of Seton's inspiring life.Ā .Ā .Ā . Readers interested in Catholic history and U.S. history should not overlook this important biography." ā Publishers Weekly
"Barthel is a fine and insightful observer of this larger-than-life woman who was so far ahead two hundred years ago that we're still catching up with her." āGloria Steinem
Includes a foreword by Maya Angelou
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Photographs and Illustrations
- Also by Joan Barthel
- About the Author
- Copyright