Nearly 2,000 people, including Knights and their families, packed the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland, on Sept. 14 for a Mass celebrating the 50th anniversary of the canonization of the shrine’s patroness — who, in 1975, became the United States’ first native-born saint.
Supreme Chaplain Archbishop William Lori was the principal celebrant and homilist, joined by concelebrants Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA; Bishop Barry Knestout of Richmond, Virginia; Bishop Roy Campbell Jr., auxiliary bishop of Washington, D.C.; Father Tomaz Mavric, superior general of the Congregation of the Mission (the Vincentians) and the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul; and more than 20 other priests. More than a dozen Fourth Degree Knights provided an honor guard for the Mass.