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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494573603321

Autore

Cummings Kathleen Sprows

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2019]

©[2019]

ISBN

979-88-908515-6-7

1-4696-4949-7

1-4696-4948-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 pages)

Collana

North Carolina scholarship online

Disciplina

235/.240973

235.240973

Soggetti

Catholics - Religious identity - United States

Canonization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

North American saints -- Nation saints -- Citizen saint -- Superpower saints -- Aggiornamento saints -- Papal saints.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--