A saint of our own : how the quest for a holy hero helped Catholics become American / Kathleen Sprows Cummings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cummings, Kathleen Sprows, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--United States--History.

Catholic Church.

Catholics--Religious identity.

United States.

History.

Canonization.

Catholics--Religious identity--United States.

Catholics.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

320 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. American saints are rare birds

North American saints

Nation saints

Citizen saint

Superpower saints

Aggiornamento saints

Papal saints

Epilogue. The next American saints.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-313) and index.

ISBN:

9781469649474

1469649470

OCLC:

1050453838