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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Main Author: Cummings, Kathleen Sprows (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
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