Candlelight Tours of Christmas Past
Step back in time to the Christmas season in the 1800s and discover Elizabeth Ann Seton’s inspirational story from those who knew her best. LEARN MORE
The National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
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Candlelight Tours
Step back in time to the Christmas season in the 1800s and discover Elizabeth Ann Seton’s inspirational story from those who knew her best. A guide will lead you by lantern to the historic homes decorated for the Christmas season. You’ll encounter beloved friends of Elizabeth Ann Seton who will share stories of her life,…
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Candlelight Tours
Step back in time to the Christmas season in the 1800s and discover Elizabeth Ann Seton’s inspirational story from those who knew her best. A guide will lead you by lantern to the historic homes decorated for the Christmas season. You’ll encounter beloved friends of Elizabeth Ann Seton who will share stories of her life,…
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Candlelight Tours
Step back in time to the Christmas season in the 1800s and discover Elizabeth Ann Seton’s inspirational story from those who knew her best. A guide will lead you by lantern to the historic homes decorated for the Christmas season. You’ll encounter beloved friends of Elizabeth Ann Seton who will share stories of her life,…
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Our Lady of Guadalupe Painting Veneration
Come venerate Mother Seton’s original painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12th, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Her painting will be on display in the Basilica from 10am-5pm, and Mass will be held at 1:30pm. It only ever comes out of the archives once a year! The original painting was given…
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Candlelight Tours
Step back in time to the Christmas season in the 1800s and discover Elizabeth Ann Seton’s inspirational story from those who knew her best. A guide will lead you by lantern to the historic homes decorated for the Christmas season. You’ll encounter beloved friends of Elizabeth Ann Seton who will share stories of her life,…
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Candlelight Tours
Step back in time to the Christmas season in the 1800s and discover Elizabeth Ann Seton’s inspirational story from those who knew her best. A guide will lead you by lantern to the historic homes decorated for the Christmas season. You’ll encounter beloved friends of Elizabeth Ann Seton who will share stories of her life,…
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Morning With Mary Advent Retreat
Join us Saturday morning, December 14 for this Marian retreat with reflections led by renowned mariologist and author Dr. Mark Miravalle and his son, Dr. John-Mark Miravalle, who is himself an author, speaker, and professor at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary. Take a moment to pause from the busyness of the season to reflect on expectation and…
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Museums by Candlelight
We welcome everyone to join us for Museums by Candlelight and see the candlelit historic homes and Basilica decorated for the Christmas season. The grounds will be illuminated with 1,000 luminaries. Enjoy living history activities related to the Christmas holiday within the historic homes. Museums by Candlelight is held in partnership with Visit Frederick and…
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December Film Series
Featuring – It’s A Wonderful Life. We welcome everyone to join us for the Shrine’s December Film Series, which features a free showing of It’s A Wonderful Life on December 14. An angel is sent from Heaven to help a suicidal man by showing him what life would have been like if he had never…
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Candlelight Tours
Step back in time to the Christmas season in the 1800s and discover Elizabeth Ann Seton’s inspirational story from those who knew her best. A guide will lead you by lantern to the historic homes decorated for the Christmas season. You’ll encounter beloved friends of Elizabeth Ann Seton who will share stories of her life,…
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Seasons: A Celtic Christmas Concert
We welcome everyone to join us for a holiday concert called Seasons: A Celtic Christmas, featuring the regional Celtic band, Seasons. This award-winning Celtic family band is made up of five siblings who play a variety of traditional instruments including the harp, hammered dulcimer, fiddle, pennywhistle, Irish drum, and more. They will be performing a…
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A Season for Hope Advent Retreat
Join Shrine Chaplains Fr. Daniel Mentesana and Fr. Ted Trinko for a day of reflection on the virtue of hope during this Christmas season. The day includes lunch, Mass and an opportunity for confession. Cost: $40
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December Film Series
Featuring – Classic Christmas Specials We welcome everyone to join us for the Shrine’s December Film Series. On December 21, we’re featuring animated Christmas Classics, including A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966), and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964). The free showing of these classic Christmas specials takes place in the…
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December Film Series
Featuring – The Muppet Christmas Carol. We welcome everyone to join us for the Shrine Film Series in December, which features a free showing of The Muppet Christmas Carol on December 28. Characters from the Muppet universe re-tell Charles Dicken’s immortal classic “A Christmas Carol,” the story of an old and bitter miser’s redemption on…
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Feast Day of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
We welcome everyone to celebrate Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton’s Feast Day with us! Learn about her life, and see where she lived and worked on our Historic Homes Tour, which takes place at 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm and 3:30pm.The tours are available for free on this day. Mass for Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton’s Feast Day…
Latest News and Reflections View All →
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and the Witness of the ‘Church of Ambrose’
| St. Elizabeth Ann Seton loved to quote Saint Ambrose, one of the four original Doctors of the Church. On his feast day, we pray that we might follow in his and Mother Seton’s footsteps in teaching the true faith to others — both in words, and in authentic lives of devotion and service.
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Bringing The Seton Shrine To Evansville, IN
| Rob Judge, Executive Director of the Seton Shrine, Sr. Anne Marie Lamoureux, D.C., Maida Connor, Director of Donor Relations, and Tina Heffner, Executive Assistant, recently traveled to Evansville, IN to visit with the Sisters in Residence. During an enjoyable two day visit, the Seton Shrine members gave a presentation to over fifty sisters on the…
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The Top Five Christmas Gifts At The Seton Shrine Gift Shop
| Amidst catching up after a long weekend (with our bellies still full from feasting at Thanksgiving), many of us are realizing that Christmas is just twenty-three days away. The Seton Shrine Gift Shop is here to help! Staff compiled the top five gifts we recommend this year that you can purchase online! And we ship!…
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An Advent Journey With Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
| Over the next four weeks, the Seton Seton will reflect on Mother Seton’s lifelong journey of Advent. Each week we’ll meditate upon how she walked the path each of us must walk and learn from her what it means to cry “Maranatha! Come, Lord!”
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The Cry of the Heart: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and Christ the King
| As Americans, we instinctively resist any sort of absolute authority. How fitting then that it was by letting herself be ruled by Christ, the King, that Elizabeth Ann Seton—the first American-born saint—showed her fellow Americans where liberation must begin: in Him.
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Imitating St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s Maternal Heart
| The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a day to reflect on the gift of maternity in all its forms, and to consider the example of Mother Seton, who stepped into the hard tasks of motherhood with courage and unswerving faith.
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Through Life’s Ups and Downs With Mother Cabrini and Mother Seton
| Like Mother Seton, Mother Cabrini is a saint whose life helps us to remember God’s perspective when we’re in the middle of setbacks and frustrations. No apparent failure is so devastating that He can’t bring good from it.
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Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton and the Virtues of Veterans
| Veterans Day honors those who have served in the military, and is also the feast day of the soldier St. Martin of Tours. The virtues of obedience, humility and sacrifice, which are shared by soldiers and saints, were evident in the life of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, who left hearth and home to do spiritual battle for the Kingdom of Christ.
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and the Humble Nobility of All Souls Day
| Before she became a foundress and a saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton was a wife, a mother, a teacher. On All Souls Day, her example reminds us of the dignity of the ordinary faithful who keep things going, bearing everyday witness to the power and value of a life in Christ.
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The Zeal of the Saints: Simon, Jude, and Elizabeth Ann Seton
| What binds Saints Simon and Jude together, aside from their common feast day, is the zealous abandonment embraced by every saint, including Elizabeth Ann Seton, who recognized that each of us is an “impossible cause” searching for God’s mercy.
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Finding Interior Peace with St. Teresa of Avila and Mother Seton
| Feelings change, emotions rise and fall, but God remains our anchor. It’s that truth, as St. Teresa of Avila and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton knew, that brings us peace, no matter the storms that rage around us.
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St. John Henry Newman and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton: Apostles of Friendship
| Both St. John Henry Newman and Mother Seton were generous in their affection for many friends. In their lives we see how holiness and the natural virtue of friendship go hand-in-hand.
Home of the First American-Born Saint
Discover the inspirational life and legacy of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton.
Seton Shrine Museum
Begin your visit with a brief film about Elizabeth Ann Seton and browsing our exhibits. including our latest, Sisters Today: A World of Difference.
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The Basilica
Awe-inspiring and amazing are a few words people have used to describe the Basilica.
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Civil War Sisters
Discover how the Daughters and Sisters of Charity continued Elizabeth Ann Seton’s ministry of charity, helping those who were in need or wounded during the Civil War.
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The Stone House
Step back in time while you tour the Stone House, which was originally built in the mid-1700s.
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The White House
This historic home was built in 1810 when Elizabeth Ann Seton realized one home wasn’t enough for all that she had in mind.
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St. Joseph's Cemetery
In 1809, Mother Seton and her companions took a walk through the dense woods on their property to select a site for a cemetery.
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The First American-Born Saint
Elizabeth Ann Seton was a wife and mother, and then found herself a widow at just 29 years old in 1803. Despite the hardships that she faced, she went on to do amazing work, and eventually became the first American-born saint in 1975. Visit this historic site and Shrine and see the museum, her historic homes, and the Basilica dedicated to her.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
The First American-Born Saint
Elizabeth Ann Seton was a wife and mother, and then found herself a widow at just 29 years old in 1803. Despite the hardships that she faced, she went on to do amazing work, and eventually became the first American-born saint in 1975. Visit this historic site and Shrine and see the museum, her historic homes, and the Basilica dedicated to her.