Cummings, Kathleen Sprows, <br/><br/>
A saint of our own :  how the quest for a holy hero helped Catholics become American / 
Kathleen Sprows Cummings. 
 - Chapel Hill :  University of North Carolina Press,  [2019] 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>North American saints -- Nation saints -- Citizen saint -- Superpower saints -- Aggiornamento saints -- Papal saints. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469649498 1469649497 9781469649481 1469649489 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Catholic Church--History.--United States<br/>Église catholique--Histoire.--États-Unis<br/>Catholic Church.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Canonization.<br/>Catholics--Religious identity--United States.<br/>Canonisation.<br/>Catholiques--Identité religieuse--États-Unis.<br/>canonizations.<br/>RELIGION--Christian Theology--Angelology & Demonology.<br/>RELIGION--Christianity--Catholic.<br/>Canonization.<br/>Catholics--Religious identity.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BX1406.3  / .C84 2019eb