This familiar profile portrait of St. Elizabeth Seton was one she never liked...
She and her husband were wearing wigs for the sitting!
I was trying to find a better resolution of this painting of lower Manhattan from Governors Island in the early 1800's.
Can you see the 3 masted boat in the center of the picture?
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton lived in a house beyond the right end of the boat,
to the right of the long tan brick building.
The building on the right with the white columns is just to the right of the shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.
All of the shipping families lived right along the water's edge at that time.
After leaving NYC, St. Elizabeth went to Baltimore and lived on the grounds of the seminary with her family in this house on Paca Street.
Interestingly, after they moved to Emmitsburg, no other family lived in the house.
Instead, the priests used the house to store food supplies.
The only "upgrade" that has been made to the house since the Setons lived there is a new floor to replace one damaged by forgotten potatoes.
This is the seminary church in Baltimore.
Anne told us the Sulpician Fathers ran out of money before statues could be placed in any of the arches.
The arches remained empty until
a seminarian jumped up one time and posed as a saint.
The picture was brought out again when he was ordained recently. :)
St. Elizabeth made her first vows in the lower chapel of the seminary church,
and here she was called Mother Seton for the first time.
Anne Merwin's love and esteem for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was inspiring!
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