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Show MAY BE CANONIZED I' X 1 Motlier Elizabeth Seton, founder of the Sisters of Charity, who will be the first woman of North America to be canonized by the Roman Catholic church, if the petition signed by 100,-000 100,-000 Americans is granted by the pope. Mother Seton, who lived in New York I and Maryland, was born near Bowling Green on August 2S, 1774. She was a daughter of Dr. Richard Bailey, professor pro-fessor at King's college, now. Columbia Colum-bia university, and first became interested inter-ested in Catholicism while traveling in Italy with her husband, William Ma-gee Ma-gee Seton, a wealthy shipowner. The school which she ultimately founded in Baltimore was the foundation of the parochial system in the United States. |