Emmitsburg, Maryland: Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

While visiting Gettysburg, we were told to stop by the Shrine since it was close by. We met a young girl who lives there and she gave us a wonderful tour. We went through the stone house and saw all the rooms that Elizabeth Seton had lived and worked in. We went by the cemetery and all through the Shrine interior. It was very impressive and beautiful. She was an intelligent, caring, and loving mother, wife, widow, and teacher who lived her life with a purpose. She certainly never expected to be a Saint, but the good Lord chose her anyway.

What a lovely place. Easy to find and beautiful grounds. One place to walk through is the cemetery for many of St Elizabeth Ann Seton's sisters. There are many headstones to view, the stations of the cross are installed in the walls enclosing this area and there is the mortuary chapel where St. Ann was originally interred.

After making the arduous pilgrimage to the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, $20 clutched eagerly in hand, I was informed that it is has been so decreed by Holy Mother Church that it is now sacrilege to peddle the bones and flesh of deceased saints.

Thus no First Class Relics are available at this or any shrine. They still sell Third Class, but all demons and undead I have meet merely scoff if you wave these in their face.

This is a blanket order from the Pope, so it will hold true at all shrines everywhere. If you just must have a First Class Relic for that bothersome Werewolf next door, try eBay, but expect to bid high. Best of luck.