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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
[2019], 2019
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 1469649470 9781469649474 |