Franciscan Mission Associates (FMA), now in its 51st year of service to the missions of the world, is a spiritually based organization with worldwide mission-helping undertakings. It promotes information about and interest in the missionaries and their people - particularly in the Franciscan Missions of Central America, but also in the inner cities of the United States and Canada as well as every continent in the world.
 Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
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 PrayerLord God, you blessed Elizabeth Seton with gifts of grace as wife and mother, educator and foundress, so that she might spend her life in service to your people. Through her example and prayers may we learn to express our love for you in love for our fellow men and women. [Liturgy of the Hours, 1:1691]
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Elizabeth Ann was born of the distinguished Bayley family in New York City in 1774 and died 47 years later in 1821 at Emmitsburg, Maryland. 
