A Saint of Our Own : How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American / Kathleen Sprows Cummings.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©[2019]Description: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781469649498
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Contents:
North American saints -- Nation saints -- Citizen saint -- Superpower saints -- Aggiornamento saints -- Papal saints.
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
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North American saints -- Nation saints -- Citizen saint -- Superpower saints -- Aggiornamento saints -- Papal saints.

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"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

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