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Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton / St. Peter's Free School / Pierre Toussaint

IN MEMORY OF   ELIZABETH ANN BAYLEY SETON BORN NEW YORK CITY AUG. 28, 1774 DIED EMMITSBURG, MD, JAN. 4, 1821 MADE PROFESSION OF FAITH AND RECEIVED FOR THE FIRST TIME THE SACRAMENTS OF THE CATHOLIC...

IN MEMORY OF
 
ELIZABETH ANN BAYLEY SETON

BORN NEW YORK CITY AUG. 28, 1774
DIED EMMITSBURG, MD, JAN. 4, 1821

MADE PROFESSION OF FAITH AND RECEIVED FOR THE FIRST TIME THE SACRAMENTS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OLD ST. PETERS
 
1805 AND 1806
 
FOUNDRESS OF
AMERICAN SISTERS OF CHARITY
 
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED
BY HER
SPIRITUAL DAUGHTERS COMMUNITIES
 
OF
 
EMMITSBURG, MD.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.
HALIFAX, N.S.
CINCINNATI, O.
CONVENT STATION, N.J.
GREENSBURG, PA.
 
MAY 9, 1931
 
SAINT ELIZABETH ANN SETON
CANONIZED SEPT. 14, 1975

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St. Peter's Free School
First Catholic School in New York
Started by St. Peter's Parish 1800
Erected by the Office of Superintendent of Schools
Archdiocese of New York
 
January 30, 2000

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PIERRE TOUSSAINT
1766-1853
 
CATHOLIC NEGRO LAYMAN
 
MEMBER OF OLD SAINT PETER'S PARISH FOR 66 YEARS
REVERED FOR HIS EXEMPLARY LIFE AND MANY WORKS OF CHARITY - THIS TABLET AFFIXED JUNE 29 1953 BY THE JOHN BOYLE OREILLY COMMITTEE FOR INTERRACIAL JUSTICE

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