Show MOTHER SETON A I Ii AMERICAN AM N Nt i t HI New Ne York Feb Peb 2 Search is being made here re for facts faC 5 and anti deeds that will wilt authorize the enrollment of the t first native American to tobt be included among ansong the canonized saints The Chief Rev Revn H n McHale C M 71 president pre of Niagara university has received authority aut to begin the work pr to the IrtI b beatification of f Mother Elisabeth Se So Seton Seton ton who founded the order OI for tor the Sisters of Charity in the United States in the Roman Catholic church the process of or canonization is one of long Jong Investigation and trial and one that proceeds with slow stow caution both here and In Rome It is notable that the th present subject is it a woman whose w ca en career career reer was all aU identified with promo promotion promotion tion of or the education of her sex ex and who was a 8 member of or one of the Pro Protestant Protestant Episcopal families socially prominent in this city during the revo revolutionary revolutionary era and the first years yn of the tiie just closed Elizabeth Ann Seton was the daugh daughter ter of Dr Richard Bayley one ope of the famous New York physicians Miss Muss Bayley was married by Bishop Provost in 1799 to William M Seton a member of an old and well reputed Scotch family They toad had four chil children children children dren Mr Seton died in Italy Dec 37 7 1803 while abroad tot for his health and the tite widow returned to New York She became a convert to the Roman ROlDan Cath Catholic Catholic olic olle faith in 1805 and four years jears ears later ater removed v to O Baltimore n She then e resolved r to attempt the for formation mation mallen of a religious community especially devoted to Ho the service of or women and children The generosity geneN l lof of another convert conyer The Wie Re Rev Francis enabled her to buy a 11 Farm fann at Jib Md ld Here adopting the rule Je of St S1 Vincent de Paul In vogue ue in France Fran e before the revolution she founded in 1810 1818 the order of the Sisters of Charity Charit From that Ural humble begin beginning ning it Jt has haIB increased and prospered until It is now a vat association as of pious women wOlDen with schools asylums I and hospitals all over the United States Stata I Two of her daughters also joined the order The late Archbishop Bayley of Baltimore was itna her bel nephew and the Rev Mgr Robert Seton D D Dof Dof Dof of Jersey Jer ey City the first American honored by the pope Ip in the Roman RomanI I I is her grandson on Mother i Seton died at Jan 4 I I lW 1521 |