March 17th

Pope John XXIII beatifies Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton at the Vatican.  Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, asks permission of His Holiness to erect the "first parish in the world named after Elizabeth Seton" at Shrub Oak.

Francis Cardinal Spellman telephones Monsignor Arthur Nugent, Professor at Cardinal Hayes High School, Bronx, from Rome, where Mother Seton has just been beatified.  He names him pastor of a new parish, “Blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton,” Shrub Oak.  The Church of Saint George on Route 6, Mohegan Lake, Mission of Saint Patrick Church, Yorktown Heights, will be renamed for the first native-born American saint.

June 22nd

Monsignor Nugent celebrates First Mass in what was the small, historic St. George Church--the La Farge Family Memorial Chapel.  Weekend Masses were celebrated at Ladycliff Academy, which later became Franciscan High School).Chosen to be Seton Parish Foundation Day.

July 23rd

This date, the parish is incorporated as a religious corporation by the State of New York.  A Rubber stamp of informal parish motto (“The Greatest Parish in the World”) is invented by Msgr. Nugent and used on all correspondence to the  Chancery Office.

1966

August

Six Sisters of Charity arrive, including Sr. Gabriel Miriam Obraz

September 12th

We open our new school with 3 grades and six classes.

November 6th

Cardinal Spellman dedicates the new school and convent, on Old Route 6 (later East Main Street), Shrub Oak.  Our old church is now designated Blessed Elizabeth Seton Chapel.  He presents the pastor with a new bronze tabernacle and School auditorium is used for Sunday Masses.

1981

January 4th

Terence Cardinal Cooke dedicates new church building.

November 27th

Monsignor Nugent dies.

Monsignor Edmund Fogarty, of Catholic Charities, is appointed second pastor.

Dedication of new vestibule with four Seton windows, one of which was donate by the Sisters of Charity displaying a growing tree—indicating growth of the Church in Shrub Oak,  It is placed in the Holy Family (later Marian) Shrine).

Dedication of four, commissioned, abstract art stained glass sanctuary windows

1996

June 16th

Dedication of Monsignor Fogarty Marian Shrine -- Our Lady of Grace, on his Golden Ordination Jubilee.

 August 2nd

Monsignor Fogarty dies.  Cardinal John O'Connor presides at Mass of Christian Burial.

Monsignor James McCarthy, longtime secretary to Cardinal O'Connor,  is appointed third pastor.

1999

Msgr. McCarthy completed rectory and Church renovation, including new sacristy (with the two, historic John La Farge windows), commissioned stained glass sanctuary windows, sheet rocking, wall lighting, closed circuit TV system, marbleizing of sanctuary, new pulpit, electrification of historic, 1897 church bell, creation of Our Lady Memorial Chapel, etc..

We adopt a parish motto for the Bi-Millennium: “The Charity of Christ compels us towards the Third Millennium” (it would shortened and taken as parish motto in 2002).

June 29th

Bishop McCarthy is ordained auxiliary bishop of New York, and Episcopal Vicar for Northern Westchester and Putnam Counties.

March 24th

Dedication of commissioned Seton Pietá, Mary Help of Christians, in new Our Lady Memorial Chapel.

December 24th

Placement of the black marble Millennium Marker in main aisle.

2001

June 25th

Edward Cardinal Egan conducts vicariate meeting at Seton.

2003

March 7th

Monsignor Thomas Sandi, retired Air Force Chaplin, is appointed fourth pastor.

2005

September 17th

Dedication of commissioned bronze bust of Elizabeth Ann Seton.

December 10th

Dedication of Saint George Portico, preserving the memory of our first church, originally named, Saint George, on Route 6.

Ours is the first parish in the world dedicated to the patronage of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton.

April 21, 1968

Don Gino Franchi is named pastor of Mother Seton Church in Livorno, Italy.