Join us for Tea With Mother Seton's Daughter: A Special Living History Event
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The National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Coronavirus Notice
We are happy to share that the Seton Shrine Visitor Center will open to the public on Wednesday July 8th and resume operating hours of Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 12pm-5pm. Visitors must wear a facial covering. Tours will continue to be offered on Fridays and Saturdays. We expect to re-open our Gift Shop on or before July 22.
See our updated Mass and Basilica schedule at setonshrine.org/mass-and-confession.
The health and safety of our visitors and staff is of utmost importance, and we've taken care to put precautions in place to keep our visitors and staff safe. For more details, visit setonshrine.org/coronavirus.
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Open Air (FREE!) Historic Homes Tours
We welcome you to join us for free, open air Historic Homes Tours. With a guide, explore our historic sites and discover the life and legacy of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint. On the Historic Homes Tour, you’ll see the two homes where Elizabeth Ann lived and worked, and learn about life…
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Daily Mass in Basilica
Join us as we celebrate Mass in the Basilica Monday through Friday. Mass is at 1:30pm Monday through Friday. Confession and Adoration are available before Mass at 12:15-1:15pm. Mass and Adoration will be livestreamed on our Facebook page and on our website. Please wear a facial covering and maintain a social distance of six feet…
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Tea With Mother Seton’s Daughter: A Special Living History Event
Join us Friday, July 17th at 4pm est for our latest Special Living History Event: Tea With Mother Seton’s Daughter. The year is 1818 and Mother Seton’s health is failing. Her daughter, Catherine, returns to Emmitsburg to be near her mother and to teach alongside Sister Xavier, a trusted companion of Mother Seton. You are…
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Open Air (FREE!) Historic Homes Tours
We welcome you to join us for free, open air Historic Homes Tours. With a guide, explore our historic sites and discover the life and legacy of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint. On the Historic Homes Tour, you’ll see the two homes where Elizabeth Ann lived and worked, and learn about life…
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Sunday Mass 1:30PM
Please join us for Mass on Sundays at 11am and 1:30pm in the Basilica. Confession is available from 12:15-1:15pm in the Basilica lobby area. Adoration will be available in the Basilica from 12:15-1:15pm. If necessary, an outdoor overflow area will be available for Mass where visitors can hear the audio of the Mass and also…
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Open Air (FREE!) Historic Homes Tours
We welcome you to join us for free, open air Historic Homes Tours. With a guide, explore our historic sites and discover the life and legacy of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint. On the Historic Homes Tour, you’ll see the two homes where Elizabeth Ann lived and worked, and learn about life…
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Daily Mass in Basilica
Join us as we celebrate Mass in the Basilica Monday through Friday. Mass is at 1:30pm Monday through Friday. Confession and Adoration are available before Mass at 12:15-1:15pm. Mass and Adoration will be livestreamed on our Facebook page and on our website. Please wear a facial covering and maintain a social distance of six feet…
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Open Air (FREE!) Historic Homes Tours
We welcome you to join us for free, open air Historic Homes Tours. With a guide, explore our historic sites and discover the life and legacy of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint. On the Historic Homes Tour, you’ll see the two homes where Elizabeth Ann lived and worked, and learn about life…
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Sunday Mass 1:30PM
Please join us for Mass on Sundays at 11am and 1:30pm in the Basilica. Confession is available from 12:15-1:15pm in the Basilica lobby area. Adoration will be available in the Basilica from 12:15-1:15pm. If necessary, an outdoor overflow area will be available for Mass where visitors can hear the audio of the Mass and also…
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Open Air (FREE!) Historic Homes Tours
We welcome you to join us for free, open air Historic Homes Tours. With a guide, explore our historic sites and discover the life and legacy of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint. On the Historic Homes Tour, you’ll see the two homes where Elizabeth Ann lived and worked, and learn about life…
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Daily Mass in Basilica
Join us as we celebrate Mass in the Basilica Monday through Friday. Mass is at 1:30pm Monday through Friday. Confession and Adoration are available before Mass at 12:15-1:15pm. Mass and Adoration will be livestreamed on our Facebook page and on our website. Please wear a facial covering and maintain a social distance of six feet…
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Sunday Mass 1:30PM
Please join us for Mass on Sundays at 11am and 1:30pm in the Basilica. Confession is available from 12:15-1:15pm in the Basilica lobby area. Adoration will be available in the Basilica from 12:15-1:15pm. If necessary, an outdoor overflow area will be available for Mass where visitors can hear the audio of the Mass and also…
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Daily Mass in Basilica
Join us as we celebrate Mass in the Basilica Monday through Friday. Mass is at 1:30pm Monday through Friday. Confession and Adoration are available before Mass at 12:15-1:15pm. Mass and Adoration will be livestreamed on our Facebook page and on our website. Please wear a facial covering and maintain a social distance of six feet…
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Sunday Mass 1:30PM
Please join us for Mass on Sundays at 11am and 1:30pm in the Basilica. Confession is available from 12:15-1:15pm in the Basilica lobby area. Adoration will be available in the Basilica from 12:15-1:15pm. If necessary, an outdoor overflow area will be available for Mass where visitors can hear the audio of the Mass and also…
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Daily Mass in Basilica
Join us as we celebrate Mass in the Basilica Monday through Friday. Mass is at 1:30pm Monday through Friday. Confession and Adoration are available before Mass at 12:15-1:15pm. Mass and Adoration will be livestreamed on our Facebook page and on our website. Please wear a facial covering and maintain a social distance of six feet…
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Sunday Mass 1:30PM
Please join us for Mass on Sundays at 11am and 1:30pm in the Basilica. Confession is available from 12:15-1:15pm in the Basilica lobby area. Adoration will be available in the Basilica from 12:15-1:15pm. If necessary, an outdoor overflow area will be available for Mass where visitors can hear the audio of the Mass and also…
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Daily Mass in Basilica
Join us as we celebrate Mass in the Basilica Monday through Friday. Mass is at 1:30pm Monday through Friday. Confession and Adoration are available before Mass at 12:15-1:15pm. Mass and Adoration will be livestreamed on our Facebook page and on our website. Please wear a facial covering and maintain a social distance of six feet…
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Sunday Mass 1:30PM
Please join us for Mass on Sundays at 11am and 1:30pm in the Basilica. Confession is available from 12:15-1:15pm in the Basilica lobby area. Adoration will be available in the Basilica from 12:15-1:15pm. If necessary, an outdoor overflow area will be available for Mass where visitors can hear the audio of the Mass and also…
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Daily Mass in Basilica
Join us as we celebrate Mass in the Basilica Monday through Friday. Mass is at 1:30pm Monday through Friday. Confession and Adoration are available before Mass at 12:15-1:15pm. Mass and Adoration will be livestreamed on our Facebook page and on our website. Please wear a facial covering and maintain a social distance of six feet…
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Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Birthday Celebration
Join us as we celebrate Mother Seton’s birthday on the last Sunday of August at 1:30pm Mass and afterward on our grounds.
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Pilgrimage for the Sea Services
Join us as we honor St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Patroness of Sea Services, and the military personnel who’ve served in a division of the Sea Services.
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Back from the Dead Cemetery Walk
Back from the Dead Cemetery Walks take place October 16-18, 23-25, 30-31 and November 1 in the historic cemetery at the Seton Shrine, located at 339 South Seton Avenue in Emmitsburg, MD. Learn more about the walk in the video below. On the Cemetery Walk, as a guide leads you through the dark…
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Praying and Working with St. Benedict and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
| Like Saint Benedict, the father of western monasticism, Mother Seton’s life was grounded in contemplation and action. She was a woman of prayer who put all of her energy into the work God called her towards, always trusting in Grace.
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St. John the Baptist, Mother Seton and the Meaning of Birthdays
| Everyone loves a birthday, but St. Elizabeth Ann Seton intuitively saw something the Catholic Church also uniquely sees: Birthdays have a deep and powerful meaning.
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Following Mother Seton’s Path Into the Sacred Heart of Jesus
| Devotion to the Sacred Heart teaches us that the way of the saints is not about an abstract ideal or rules for life, but about the unfathomable love of God, who we embrace—blood, sweat and all.
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St. Anthony and Mother Seton Show Us It’s the Little Things
| Lost car keys or a feverish child might not seem like a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but it’s in the little things that we find, every day, a multitude of ways to love.
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Beloved Daughter and Woman of the Trinity
| Through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we can rest in the community of love that is the Triune God. Mother Seton shows us how to immerse ourselves in the life of the Blessed Trinity as God’s beloved sons and daughters.
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Mother Seton and Charles Lwanga: Two Saints, One Spirit
| The difference is great between the young African tribesman in Uganda and the religious foundress from New York City. But Pentecost Sunday reminds us just how alike they really are.
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On the Winds of Pentecost with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
| At Pentecost, we celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the Church through imagery of divine wind and fire. For Mother Seton—and for Catholics today—it’s within the storms and wreckage of life that grace is encountered, and new paths are revealed.
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All Shall Be Well With Julian of Norwich and Mother Seton
| As we endure trials and isolation during the pandemic, we can look to St. Julian of Norwich and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton for strength. They share the mystic’s confidence that “all shall be well” if we trust in God. These things that we suffer and fear – pain, death, illness, loss, and strife – Jesus has already overcome. We suffer in the world, but He has conquered the world.
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Out of the Darkness with Louise de Marillac and Elizabeth Ann Seton
| Meditating on the trials and struggles of St. Louise de Marillac and Mother Seton gives us hope in these uncertain times. We learn that holiness is found not in flashes of glory, but in the messy spaces where one watches, prays, and waits.
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The Greatest Idea of St. Athanasius and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
| What attracted Mother Seton to the Catholic Church was the closeness of Christ, from the intimate scenes of the nativity, to His presence in the Eucharist. Like the great saint Athanasius, she proclaimed the truth of the Incarnation to all—“God is so infinitely present to us that he is in every part of our life and being.”
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Devotion to Jesus, Mary and Joseph With St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
| Elizabeth Ann Seton’s young daughters liked to write out the holy initials J+M+J in imitation of their mother. In difficult times we can go with the saints to the heart of the domestic Church, to Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the family of God.
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and the Lightness of Divine Mercy
| For humans, finding a balance between justice and mercy is always difficult. But St. Elizabeth Ann Seton understood that God’s grace transcends earthly limits, and allows mercy to fall lightly from heaven on our hearts and minds.
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.