A Saint of Our Own How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American

"What drove American Catholics in their long and arduous quest, full of twists and turns across more than a century, to win an American-born saint? The absence of American names in the canon of the saints left many feeling spiritually unmoored and disrespected - to be able to look at the same A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cummings, Kathleen Sprows, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press [2019]
Colección:North Carolina scholarship online.
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Sumario:"What drove American Catholics in their long and arduous quest, full of twists and turns across more than a century, to win an American-born saint? The absence of American names in the canon of the saints left many feeling spiritually unmoored and disrespected - to be able to look at the same American scenes upon which a saint had gazed would be a joy and privilege, certainly. But believers also had another reason for cultivating homegrown holiness, contends Kathleen Sprows Cummings in this ... chronicle of saint-making in America, where canonization was about holiness but never only about holiness"--
Notas:Previously issued in print: 2019.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (333 pages)
Público:Specialized.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9798890851567
9781469649498
9781469649481
Acceso:Open access