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 Americ...

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Egile nagusia: Cummings, Kathleen Sprows (Egilea)
Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa eBook
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Argitaratua: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Saila:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Gaia:"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"--
Deskribapen fisikoa:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9781469649498
Sartu:Open Access