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- Title
"Many customs and manners": Transatlantic Influences in the Life and Work of Elizabeth Seton.
- Authors
O'Donnell, Catherine
- Abstract
The celebration of Elizabeth Seton as the first native-born American citizen to be canonized has obscured the transatlantic influences evident in her spirituality and the religious community she founded. The recipient of an ambitious education-occurring in an American context but cosmopolitan in its content-Seton developed habits of inquiry that allowed her to explore and adopt a faith that many Americans found incompatible with those very habits. After her conversion, she found a way to make a life and career within the American Catholic Church only with the help of French exiles and within a template of religious community forged amid the sectarian competitions and social crises of early modern Europe, a template that proved startlingly well suited to the early American Republic.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SETON, Elizabeth Ann, Saint, 1774-1821; SPIRITUALITY; CATHOLIC Church; DAUGHTERS of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul; METHODIST hymns; AMERICAN Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
- Publication
U.S. Catholic Historian, 2018, Vol 36, Issue 3, p29
- ISSN
0735-8318
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cht.2018.0016