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: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
[2019]
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| Series: | North Carolina scholarship online.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009449250906719 |
| 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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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2019. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (333 pages) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9798890851567 9781469649498 9781469649481 |
| Access: | Open access |
