American Saint The Life of Elizabeth Seton【電子書籍】[ Joan Barthel ]

＜p＞＜strong＞"A fascinating biography" of Elizabeth Seton, who shocked high society by converting to Catholicismーa faith that was illegal in New York when she was born ( ＜em＞Booklist＜/em＞).＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this riveting biography of the first American saint, Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life encompassed wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774ーwhen Catholicism was illegal and priests in the city were arrested, and sometimes hanged. Her father was the chief health officer for the Port of New York, and she lived down the block from Alexander Hamilton. She danced at George Washington's sixty-fifth Birthday Ball in cream slippers, monogrammed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Elizabeth and her husband sailed to Italy in a doomed attempt to cure his tuberculosis, she and her family were quarantined in a damp dungeon. And when, after she was widowed, Elizabeth became a Catholic, she was so scorned that pe．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る