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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.
- Series:
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--United States--History.
- Catholic Church.
- Catholics--Religious identity--United States.
- Catholics.
- Canonization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : 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:
- North American saints
- Nation saints
- Citizen saint
- Superpower saints
- Aggiornamento saints
- Papal saints.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908515-6-7
- 1-4696-4949-7
- 1-4696-4948-9
- OCLC:
- 1088722616
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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