Elizabeth Seton & The Virgin Mary

“The other day in a moment of excessive distress…—a little prayer book of Mrs. F[ilicchi]’s
was on the table and I opened a little prayer [the Memorare] of St. Bernard to the Blessed
Virgin begging her to be our Mother, and I said to her with such a certainty that God
would surely refuse nothing to his Mother… I felt really I had a Mother, which you know
my foolish heart so often lamented to have lost in early days,—from the first remembrance
of infancy I have looked in all the plays of childhood and wildness of youth to the clouds
for my Mother, and at that moment it seemed as if I had found more than her, even in the
tenderness and pity of a Mother—so I cried myself to sleep in her heart.”

Written by Judith Metz, SC, this powerful little book describes the beautiful love and devotion St. Elizabeth Ann Seton had for Our Blessed Mother.  Having lost her own mother at a very young age, Elizabeth took Mary as her mother.  A mom to five of her own children, Elizabeth identified with Mary and cultivated a very special relationship with her.  Elizabeth Seton And The Virgin Mary chronicles the beautiful love Elizabeth had for Our Lady.