Famous Religious Conversions St. Elizabeth Bayley Seton

About the famous religious convert St. Elizabeth Bayley Seton what religion she converted from and to and why.

RENOWNED RELIGIOUS CONVERTS

ST. ELIZABETH BAYLEY SETON, U.S., 1774-1821.

First Roman Catholic saint who was a native-born American, she was a widow when she converted and founded the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph in the U.S.

From: Anglicanism.

To: Roman Catholicism.

Why: Mother Seton was attracted to Roman Catholicism's emphasis on the Blessed Sacrament and its devotion to Mary. Prior to conversion, she was an active Anglican laywoman, referred to by society as a "Protestant Sister of Charity."