Author/editor(s): Paul VI
Creation: 15 Sept. 1975 (The date of original creation or publication, if known)

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Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821) is the first declared U.S. native-born saint. Born in New York City of an Episcopalian family, later mother of five children, then widowed, she became a Catholic in 1805 and founded the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph at Emmitsburg, Maryland.