Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World traces the changing
significance of a dozen saints and holy sites from the fourth
century to the twentieth and from Africa, Sicily, Wales, and
Iceland to Canada, Boston, Mexico, Brazil, and the Caribbean.
Scholars representing the fields of history, art history, religious
studies, and communications contribute their perspectives in this
interdisciplinary collection, also notable as the first English
language study of many of the saints treated in the volume. Several
chapters chart the changing images and meanings of holy people as
their veneration traveled from the Old World to the New; others
describe sites and devotions that developed in the Americas. The
ways that a group feels connected to the holy figure by ethnicity
or regionalism proves to be a critical factor in a saint's
reception, and many contributors discuss the tensions that develop
between ecclesiastical authorities and communities of devotees.
Exploring the fluid boundaries between pilgrimage and tourism,
ritual and knowledge, articles assess the importance of place in
saint veneration and shed new light on the relationship between a
saint's popularity and his or her association with holy relics,
healing waters, and keepsakes purchased at a pilgrimage site. In
addition to St. Benedict the Moor, medieval Irish pilgrimage art,
and Ponce de Leon's ""Fountain of Youth"", the authors discuss
figures such as the Holy Child of Atocha, St. Winefride of Wales,
Father Patrick Power, St. Amico of Italy and Louisiana, Our Lady of
Prompt Succor, and the Icelandic bishop Gumundr Arason.
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