Quarantine
How Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Helped Me During the Early Months of the COVID- 19 Pandemic
- History & Biography
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
As COVID-19 shut down the world in the early months of 2020, professor and writer David von Schlichten decided to keep a diary to help him cope with the crisis. As a scholar of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, von Schlichten recalled her journal that she kept while she and her dying husband and daughter were under quarantine in 1803. They had been forced into a lazaretto upon arriving in Italy due to fears among the Italians that the family might carry yellow fever, which was ravaging New York, the Setons's home city. Elizabeth wrote about the ordeal in detail that is heart-breaking, mystical, poetic, and inspiring. In Quarantine: How Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Helped Me Through the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic, von Schlichten shares his diary written during the first three months of the pandemic. He writes candidly about his struggles and doubts while also offering an insightful analysis of Seton's quarantine journal and what it has to say to us today. Quarantine is an accessible, intelligent, spiritual, and heartfelt reflection on the power of Seton's wise words of hope for any crisis.
Endorsements (2)
“Quarantine by David von Schlichten is an unflinching look back at the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a tone of optimism as he connects his own situation to that of Elizabeth Anna Seton’s quarantine. Indeed, this analogy provides the readers with some hope that we too will endure and perhaps even grow, as Seton did.”
“David von Schlichten brings the solace and wisdom of Elizabeth Ann Seton by engaging her diary of eloquent literary prose while writing his own experience of a pandemic over two hundred years later. Readers will empathize with Seton’s and von Schlichten’s joys and sorrows during a pandemic both then and now. Quarantine captures an important moment of our time and contributes to the body of Seton scholarship through a deeply personal interlocution with the first American saint.”
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