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

by Kathleen Sprows Cummings

Book Overview

What drove U.S. Catholics in their arduous quest, full of twists and turns over more than a century, to win an American saint? The absence of American names in the canon of the saints had left many of the faithful feeling spiritually unmoored. But while canonization may be fundamentally about holiness, it is never only about holiness, reveals Kathleen Sprows Cummings in this panoramic, passionate chronicle of American sanctity. Catholics had another...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469665530
• ISBN13: 9781469665535
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"