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 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--

• | Author: Kathleen Sprows Cummings
• | Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: August 01, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 332 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1469665530
• | ISBN-13: 9781469665535