A Saint of Our Own : How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American / / Kathleen Sprows Cummings.
"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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| Superior document: | North Carolina scholarship online |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Chapel Hill : : University of North Carolina Press,, [2019] ©[2019] |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | North Carolina scholarship online.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (333 pages) |
| Notes: | Previously issued in print: 2019. |
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| 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"-- |
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| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9798890851567 1469649497 1469649489 |
| Access: | Open access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Kathleen Sprows Cummings. |