Catholic Review Online: Celebrate the Seton bicentennial in Emmitsburg

The Catholic Review Online has posted a nice story on the upcoming special events highlighting the bicentennial celebration of the arrival of Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton to Emmitsburg, MD.

Two hundred years after St. Elizabeth Ann Seton arrived in Emmitsburg to found a ministry of education, hundreds of Catholics will commemorate her entry into town as they witness a live Aug. 2 reenactment complete with a horse-drawn Conestoga Wagon.

The special event is one of the highlights of a weekend of bicentennial celebrations July 31-Aug. 2 that will also include a Mass with Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George, the showing of an archival exhibit and tours of historic sites.

The Seton Legacy of Charity website can be found here, and a full schedule of the July-August events can be seen here. Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton was canonized in 1975 as the first U.S.-born saint.