Jerome Ave View
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Relief Statue
Jerome Avenue Main Entrance
Main Alter View - Jerome Avenue
Stained Glass Windows
Holy Family Relief Statue
St. Francis of Assisi
St. Frances Xavier Cabini
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One of the keystones of the Catholic Church in the United States of America, St. Elizabeth Ann was born of a well-respected Protestant family in New York City in 1774. (In fact, her mother was the daughter of the Anglican minister at St. Andrew's in (Old) Richmondtown, Staten Island.) Elizabeth Ann had married, became a mother of five, but was widowed when she was only 29. Soon afterwards, on Ash Wednesday of 1805, and despite the social difficulties she would encounter from family and friends for doing so, she was received into the Catholic Church at St. Peter's on Barclay St., Manhattan. Subsequently, she would become the foundress of the Sisters of Charity. Elizabeth Ann opened the first American Catholic parish school and established the first American Catholic orphanage. She died in Emmitsburg, Maryland, in 1821. Her feast day in January 4th. .
This high relief statue made of stone is mounted on the wall to the right of and behind the main altar, near the church organ console. Sculptor Nicholas Caivano depicts Jesus, Mary, and Joseph with the stained glass window backdrop portraying the Holy Family symbolically..
Nicholas Caivano portrays kneeling, with a discarded sword, mandolin, and a purse full of coins by his feet. His arm is around a wolf and there are birds and rabbits nearby.
The objects represent the life of St. Francis who was born in Umbria, Italy around 1182 into a wealthy merchant family. As he matured, he entered his city's military service with dreams of worldly glory. But such as lifestyle did not bring him peace of heart. After a gradual conversion, il poverello, embraced a life of evangelical poverty, showing his love for the poor and his ardent desire to imitate the self-emptying humility of God-become-man, Jesus Christ. Meanwhile, he allowed himself to be ordained a deacon since a deacon is one called to service.
In all created things, he found some reflection of the Creator's beauty, power, goodness, and truth. (This respect of his for all of creation cannot but make us endeavor to protect our own environment.) He had a custom of regarding all creatures, animate or inaminate,
was born in Lombardy, Italy in 1850. She believed herself called to become a nun and a missionary. In 1880, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart to spread devotion to the heart of Jesus by means of spiritual and corporal works of mercy. Pope Leo XIII asked her to go to the United States to care for immigrants, especially those coming from Italy. Frances Xavier and six sisters arrived in New York City in 1889. Despite the many difficulties she encountered, she persevered and established convents in the Dioceses of Brooklyn, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Newark, Scranton, and Seattle, and openned 67 institutions such as schools, orphanages, and hospitals. Through her zeal for Christ, she worked tirelessly for the poor, the abandoned, the uneducated, and the sick. Frances Xavier died in Chicago in 1917, but is interred at 701 Fort Washington Avenue, N.Y., N.Y. She is the first American citizen to be canonized. Her feast day is November 13th.
     
    
     
    
    
    
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Jerome Ave View
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