Word: emmitsburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ostracized in New York, she moved to Baltimore where the Catholic community welcomed her. A few years later, Elizabeth Seton took religious vows and founded the American Sisters of Charity in Emmitsburg, Md. Before she died of tuberculosis in 1821, she had set up a free parish school in Emmitsburg from which the American Catholic parochial school system evolved, established the first American Catholic hospital and watched her tiny order expand to ten houses...