One of our archdiocese's newest mission chapels, located in Manchester, Meriweather County, has been named for the Church's newest saint, Saint Elizabeth Seton. This is one of the first, if not the very first church to be so named according to Father Joseph F. Ware, who is in charge of the Meriweather missions.

The new name for the church, formerly called the Manchester Catholic Mission, was selected by the priest and people of the mission early in the summer. The title was approved by Archbishop Donnellan and will become official on Sunday, September 14 with the canonization of Mother Seton in Rome by Pope Paul VI.

In the Archdiocese of Atlanta, the Daughters of Charity carry on the work of their foundress in their work at St. Mary's School in Rome, GA. For the last several years at the invitation of Monsignor Michael Manning, the sisters have conducted a summer school of religion in LaGrange and Manchester.

Father Ware points out an interesting note: Mother Seton's maternal grandmother was a member of the Roosevelt family of New York. Only five miles from the church in Manchester in the Warm Springs Foundation Chapel, President Franklin D. Roosevelt attended his last church service on Easter Sunday a few days before his death at Warm Springs in April, 1945.

A portrait of Saint Elizabeth Seton, a gift of the Daughters of Charity of Emmitsburg, Maryland, has been placed in the sanctuary of the Manchester Church.