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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cummings, Kathleen Sprows
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press [2019], 2019
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • North American saints
  • Nation saints
  • Citizen saint
  • Superpower saints
  • Aggiornamento saints
  • Papal saints