What were Elizabeth Ann Seton's virtues?

Answer 1

Elizabeth Seton was the wife of William Magee Seton of the Seton Family Shiping Business. Elizabeth and William had five chilldren before his death from tuberculosis in Leghorn, Italy. The young widow returned to New York and converted to Catholicism. Because of her conversion she was ostracized by New York Society and moved to Baltimore where she founded a school to support herself and her children. It was there that she founded a religious congregation of women (many widows like herself) and moved the group to Emmitsburg, Maryland. Elizabeth Bayley Seton is recognized as the foundress of the Sisters of Chariity in the United States and of Catholic Education.

Answer 2

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was a very loving woman, who gave her all to her husband and family. She was always a great reader, and The Bible was her mainstay. After her husband's death, she converted to the Catholic Church, after raising her own children, she started a school with two other women and eventually they formed the religious Order founded on the principles that St. Vincent de Paul had left for the Daughters of Charity in France (the famous Order with the huge starched coronets). St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was well known throughout her life for her kindness, patience, good sense, wit and courtesy.