{"id":221068,"date":"2025-09-11T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setonshrine.org\/?p=221068"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:46:47","slug":"press-seton-shrine-to-celebrate-50-years-of-americas-first-native-born-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setonshrine.org\/es\/press-seton-shrine-to-celebrate-50-years-of-americas-first-native-born-saint\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESS: Seton Shrine to celebrate 50 years of America\u2019s first native-born saint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton will welcome hundreds of people to celebrate the\u00a0<a class=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/setonshrine.org\/es\/cincuenta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-cmp-ab=\"2\">50th anniversary<\/a>\u00a0of the canonization of the first American-born saint and to recognize the 87 American Catholics on the path to sainthood now.<\/p>\n<p>St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, a mother, convert to the Catholic faith, and founder of the Sisters of Charity, was canonized by Pope Paul VI on Sept. 14, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>The Seton Shrine will commemorate the milestone of her canonization with a weekend-long event on its grounds in Emmitsburg, Maryland, honoring her legacy and her work of planting the seeds for Catholic education in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend will also highlight other American saints and those who are blessed, venerable, or servants of God \u201cwho reveal that people from the U.S. can obtain holiness,\u201d Rob Judge, executive director of the Seton Shrine, told CNA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/266421\/seton-shrine-to-celebrate-50-years-of-america-s-first-native-born-saint\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic News Agency covers the 50th Anniversary<\/p>","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":219278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3920],"tags":[4421],"class_list":["post-221068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","tag-fiftynews"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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