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.