TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cummings,Kathleen Sprows
TI  - A saint of our own: how the quest for a holy hero helped Catholics become American 
SN  - 9781469649498
AV  - BX1406.3 .C84 2019eb
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Église catholique
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - fast
KW  - Canonization
KW  - Catholics
KW  - Religious identity
KW  - Canonisation
KW  - Catholiques
KW  - Identité religieuse
KW  - canonizations
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Angelology & Demonology
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Catholic
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; North American saints -- Nation saints -- Citizen saint -- Superpower saints -- Aggiornamento saints -- Papal saints
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469649498_cummings
ER  -