Yes, the answer to yesterday's question is St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Born to a physician and a pastor's daughter, this young lady would grow up to impact the educational system in our country dramatically - by providing an educational alternative for parents and their children. She is the Mother of the American Catholic School System.
Today, Catholic education is the first choice of many parents. It gives young people a spiritual and educational foundation that exceeds all other educational venues. It has set a standard of excellence that continues to challenge public schools (and other private institutions) and call them to reform, to improve, or to be rendered inviable.
It is amazing to think that this young widow (of 29 years) had the fortitude to raise five children on her own, give serious and sincere consideration to a faith which none of her family embraced, and willingly give up family and friends to claim the Catholic faith as her own. She would found the Sisters of Charity and and set a course for education in our country that would rival that of the nations of the world.
And many of her friends and family would eventually convert as well.
Her favorite prayer:
May the most just, the most high
and the most amiable will of God
Be in all things fulfilled, praised
and exalted above all forever.
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