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The Pittsburgh Press, Sunday, Dec. 15, 1974 Qfl Mer Veors Of Campaigning Elizabeth Ann Seton's Sainthood Thrills U. S. Nuns 3 WHY BANK EARN By DONALD P. BAKER 11 When she enrolled at the school, founded by Mother Seton, word of her miraculous recovery became a subject of talk among her classmates.

But young Ann O'Neill still wasn't impressed. "I had wanted to go to public high school, where my friends were, but mother was old fashioned." she said during an interview at her home in Severn, near Baltimore. Her mother, who was sitting on the couch next to her fingered a religious medal, smiled and said, "Yes, Ann, but it was a miracle." "Oh yes, I believe it was a miracle," Mrs. Hooe added. Mrs.

O'Neill said she has never "had to defend miracle. You either believe or you don't." Woihinglon Post Service kept in a small, bronze casket, explained her elation in more conventional terms: "We have been praying for this for more than 11 years," she said. "Every day. And more than once a day." Father Taggart, who for six years has been globe-trotting between this tiny valley town in the shadow of the Catoctin Mountains and the Vatican in Rome as vice postulator for the cause of Mother Seton "It means I was her American advocate nonetheless said he was "awed" at the Pope's announcement. "I guess Mother Seton will be St.

Elizabeth Ann, the widow Seton," he said. "Do you think the Pope would buy 'St. Elizabeth Ann of Emmits-burg?" suggested Valli Ryan, who has been handling press relations since the news came from Rome. Sister Mary Clare, the ter Ann, 4, was suffering from acute lymphatic leukemia. "We needed miracles for the beatification of Mother Seton (a preliminary step to sainthood)," Sister Mary Alice said, "and I thought Ann's illness would be a wonderful case." Mrs.

O'Neill said that she "hadn't heard of Mother Seton, but when Sister asked me if I had the faith, I said 'I have the "She taught me the prayer and we began praying. And Ann didn't die. In a few days she began getting better." Ann is now Mrs. Robert Hooe, 27, a healthy mother of three boys and a girl who is named Mary Alice, in honor of Sister Mary Alice. "There never was really any big deal" about being a living miracle "until I went to Seton High School" in Baltimore, Mrs.

Hooe said. is a recognition that she was "a woman who in every respect, in the exercise of Christian virtue, practiced her faith to a heroic or extraordinary degree," said Father Taggart. Sainthood Attainable This principal criteria for sainthood seeking to practice one's faith to extraordinary degrees puts everyone within reach of sainthood, Father Taggart noted. One of the three certified miracles attributed to Mother Seton was set in motion by Sister Mary Alice Fowler, who, coincidentially, a transferred to Emmitsburg two months ago. Sister Mary Alice was working as a supervisor of pediatrics at St.

Agnes Hospital in Baltimore in 1952 when she met Felixena Ann O'Neill, a mother who was distraught over the news that her daugh Woman (as proclaimed by the United Nations). As friend, wife, mother of five, widow, and religious, Elizabeth Seton exemplified so well the finest qualities of Yes, agreed Sister Mary Clare, Elizabeth Seton was "certainly a liberated woman, far ahead of time." Born Elizabeth Ann Bayley on Aug. 28, 1774, in New York City to an Episcopalian physician and his wife she converted to the Roman Catholic faith after the death of her husband William a Seton, a wealthy shipping magnate. She moved to this village near the Maryland-Pennsylvania border in 1 8 0 9 and established the Sisters of Charity in the United States as a branch of a Parisian order of the same name. Her upcoming canonization KMMITSBURG, Md.

The 100 black-robbed sisters of the Daughters of Charity interrupted their morning meditation with applause when Sister Mary Clare Hughes told them, "at 6 o'clock this morning noon Rome time our Holy Father announced that Blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton will be formally canonized." The Rev. Sylvester A. Tag-part, who has worked full-time since 19(8 in the cause of making Mother Seton the first American-born saint of the Catholic Church, explained the action of Pope Paul in baseball terms: "It's like making the Hall of Fame," he said in a Brooklyn accent. Daily Prayers Of 11 Years Sister Inocencia Oritz, 84, kneeling beside the alcove in chapel of St. Joseph's Provincial House here, where Mother Seton's remains are Why bank at 5'2 percent when you can earn the same 10-11 percent yeur bank does! tf you're not getting the same return as your banker you are musing out! Our twice monthly published newsletter gives you the facts about how you can earn the same 10-11 percent! Also the highest return for your dollars guaranteed by the U.S.

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