catholic history

The month of June as June 23 is International Widows Day. Isabella Graham would start with Elizabeth and several other prominent women of New York, the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children.

A brave Daughter of Charity takes on the wild west. The book mentioned in this episode, "At the end of the Santa Fe Trail" is available in our gift shop!

Louise de Marillac was beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1920 and, on March 11, 1934, she was canonized by Pope Pius XI. Her feast day is May 9 (changed from March 15 in 2016). Her remains are enshrined in the chapel of the motherhouse of the Daughters of Charity at 140 rue du Bac, Paris.

Catherine Charlton Seton (1800-1891) born June 28, the fourth child and second daughter of Elizabeth Bayley and William Magee Seton. She was just 3 and ½ when her father died and went on to become a religious sister.

Rev. Simon Gabriel Brute de Remur, S.S., (1779-1839) was born in France, became a physician in 1803, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1808. He came to the United States in June 1810, bringing an extensive library of several thousand volumes with him which he shared with Elizabeth. Brute served at both St. Mary's College and Seminary, Baltimore, Maryland, and Mount St. Mary's, Emmitsburg, Maryland, where he developed deep spiritual bonds with Elizabeth Seton. He became the spiritual director and chaplain for the Sisters of Charity.

In this episode we meet a family that helped Elizabeth establish her school and became life long friends including helping her the last few months of her life. We hear from two Junior History Interpreters who play two Harper students who attended Mother Seton's school in Emmitsburg, MD and what it is like to portray them.

Sr. Regina Bechtle, Sister of Charity from New York speaks on Elizabeth Boyle whose birthday is October 16th 1790 (her 230th!)

This event took place on 3 May 2019 and is part of the VHI 2019 series on 'Catholicity: Crises and Opportunities'. For more details visit: www.vhi.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk John McGreevy is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth Century Urban North (1996), Catholicism and American Freedom: A History (2003) and American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global (2016). A fourth book on global Catholicism is under contract. He has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Louisville Institute, and the Erasmus Institute, and has published in the Journal of American History, New York Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and other venues.