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A Saint of Our Own How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American

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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 holine...

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Main Author: Cummings, Kathleen Sprows (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2019
Subjects:
History of religion
Christian communities & monasticism
Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
History of the Americas
Catholic Church
American Catholicism
Vatican
Catholics in the United States
the canonization process
beatification
Rome
how to make a saint
North American Martyrs
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Kateri Tekakwitha
John Neumann
Frances Cabrini
Rose Philippine Duchesne
Katharine Drexel
Junipero Serra
saints
missionaries
religious
nuns
priests
Catholic women
Catholic immigrants
Sisters of Charity
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