Thursday, 11 April 2019

Where The Seton Miracles And Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

By Brian Allen


Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton lived from 1774 to 1821, a convert to the Catholic belief, Ms. Seton was the founder of the Sisters of Charity organization in America. In addition, Elizabeth was the first person born in the United States to be canonized and honored as a Saint. Whereas, a number of miracles, religious signs and symbols have been named after the Saint in what has become known as The Seton Miracles.

Seton comes from Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton who was born in the mid-1700s and lived to the mid-1820s. For, before being canonized Ms. Seton cured three different individuals of what had been determined to be fatal illnesses. In one case, Ms. Seton cured Anne Theresa O'Neil of a fatal form of childhood leukemia.

When it comes to miracles named for the saint, there are numerous. While this is the case, there are still a number of skeptics whom believe the events have been nothing more than hoaxes. Whereas, a number of true believers swear that there were no external forces present when the miracles appeared.

Our Lady of Medjugorje is one of the most beautiful and well known statues which individuals have seen weeping. In this case, the statue appeared to be weeping at a Knights of Columbus meeting in the Spring of 1992. In addition to weeping statues, a number of healings, blessings, beautiful fragrances such as flowers or spices, rosary beads changing colors, statues turning different colors and other supernatural events were also witnessed between 1991 and 1993.

Most often, the statues which have been reported to have wept were those of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Whereas, there have also been pictures and crucifixes housed at the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton church which have bled or changed color. In most cases, these incidents occurred when there were multiple individuals present to witness the event.

While being pressed for more information, the parishioner whom reported the incidents indicated that someone else had provided the information. Upon hearing this, the staff member went to the rectory to inform Father Bruse. At which time, the priest explained that the weeping began with an Our Lady of Grace statue the previous Thanksgiving while the stigmata wounds appeared about a month after the incident with the statue.

During the conversation between the staff member and Father Bruse regarding these events, a rather small Madonna statue made of plastic sitting on the credenza began to cry. In this case, with water flowing rapidly from the eyes down across the cheekbones, the term crying was the only possible term which could be used to explain the experience. Whereas, most other statues had been reported as weeping in the past.

Since the early 1990s, there have been other reports of over two dozen supernatural events in which icons made out of different types of materials have been known to have been seen weeping, changing colors or bleeding. In fact, there were even statues in a glass case in the rectory at the Elizabeth Ann Seton church in Virginia which appeared to weep while Father Jim was there for a church dinner.




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