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A Saint of Our Own - How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American (Hardcover)
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A Saint of Our Own - How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American (Hardcover)
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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
reason for petitioning the Vatican to acknowledge an American holy
hero. A home-grown saint would serve as a mediator between heaven
and earth, yes, but also between Catholicism and American culture.
Throughout much of U.S. history, the making of a saint was also
about the ways in which the members of a minority religious group
defined, defended, and celebrated their identities as Americans.
Their fascinatingly diverse causes for canonization-from Kateri
Tekakwitha to Elizabeth Ann Seton to many others that are failed,
forgotten, or still underway-represented evolving national values
as Catholics made themselves at home. Cummings's vision of American
sanctity shows just how much Catholics had at stake in cultivating
devotion to men and women perched at the nexus of holiness and
American history-until they finally felt little need to prove that
they belonged.
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