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...subsequently went to Pisa, Italy, for his health. Soon after he died, leaving her with five children, she became a Catholic. She returned to New York. Her Catholicism ostracized her. She went to Baltimore and founded a school for girls, which later became the famous Sisters of Charity, at Emmetsburg, Md. She took vows and was three times chosen Mother of the Sisterhood...