City Steeple, City Streets: Saints' Tales from Granada and a Changing Spain

by Candace Slater

Book Overview

Candace Slater's new book focuses on narratives concerning Fray Leopoldo de Alpandeire (1864-1956), a Capuchin friar from Granada and probably the most popular nonconsecrated saint today in all of Spain. In tracing the emergence of a group of contemporary legends about Fray Leopoldo, Slater discusses both the stories she tape-recorded in the streets of Granada and the friar's official biography. She underscores the essential pluralism of the tales,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520357582
• ISBN13: 9780520357587
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"