02335oam 22005174a 450 991049457360332120230426162454.0979-88-908515-6-71-4696-4949-71-4696-4948-9(CKB)4100000007746064(MiAaPQ)EBC5720788(StDuBDS)EDZ0002142786(OCoLC)1088722616(MdBmJHUP)muse73498(EXLCZ)99410000000774606420180821d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA Saint of Our OwnHow the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American /Kathleen Sprows CummingsChapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,[2019]©[2019]1 online resource (333 pages)North Carolina scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2019.1-4696-4947-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.North American saints -- Nation saints -- Citizen saint -- Superpower saints -- Aggiornamento saints -- Papal saints."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"--Provided by publisher.North Carolina scholarship online.CatholicsReligious identityUnited StatesCanonizationCatholicsReligious identityCanonization.235/.240973235.240973Cummings Kathleen Sprows1024679MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910494573603321A Saint of Our Own2435532UNINA