This is the cover of the book Elizabeth Seton: American Saint by Catherine O Donnell. The book is reviewed by Brian T. Olszewski. (CNS)
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Most Catholics have probably heard of or read about St. Elizabeth Seton, the first American-born citizen to be declared a saint, as following her canonization in 1975, it was not uncommon for new or merged parishes and schools to be named in her honor.
A few paragraphs about her in various lives of the saints compilations note her journey from wealth to poverty, married to widowed, and Episcopal Church to Catholic Church. They feature her founding of the Sisters of Charity and the establishment of the nation s first free Catholic school for girls.
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This photograph was taken on May 8, 1921. Bishop Leo Haid, of the Order of St. Benedict, dedicated the church “to the service of God.”
Mount Airy Museum of Regional History
Here is a picture of the church, built in 1921 and the rectory, built in 1929. (Photograph courtesy of David Wright via Surry County Digital Heritage
Communion is a ceremony that marks a child or adult’s first reception of the Eucharist. Here is a picture of a Communion taking place in 1921.
Mount Airy Museum of Regional History
A Communion from this year.
Mount Airy Museum of Regional History
Pictured here are 11 stonemasons quarrying dimension stock. To the far left in the hat is J.D. Sargent, head of the North Carolina Granite Association. Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church was built with stone from the quarry.
Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington speaks during Mass in the chapel of Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington Jan. 13, 2021, where he addressed the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent assault on the U.S. Capitol. (CNS photo/Andrew Biraj, Catholic Standard) Jan. 14, 2021 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – Celebrating a livestreamed Mass for the community of Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington Jan. 13, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory noted how sometimes the readings of the day fit our lives so perfectly. They somehow almost mystically describe where we are at this moment, he said. Washington s archbishop then pointed out how that day s Gospel reading, Mark 1: 29-39, which described Jesus curing Peter s mother-in-law of a fever and later casting out evil spirits, could be connected to the COVID-19 pandemic and to the Jan. 6 insurrection when a mob of rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol.