A Saint of Our Own
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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2023
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| description | 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 and Elizabeth Ann Seton to many others that are failed, forgotten, or still under way—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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1221012025-03-21T04:00:33Z A Saint of Our Own Cummings, Kathleen Sprows 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 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 and Elizabeth Ann Seton to many others that are failed, forgotten, or still under way—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. 2023-11-17T09:27:54Z 2023-11-17T09:27:54Z 2023-10-04T14:18:12Z 2019 book ONIX_20231004_9798890851567_2 OCN: 1088722616 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76550 9798890851567 9781469649474 9781469649481 9781469665535 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/122101 eng open access image/png image/png image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76550/2/9781469649498.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76550/2/9781469649498.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76550/1/9798890851567.pdf The University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469649498_Cummings 10.5149/9781469649498_Cummings f46e5319-8d09-4c63-b9f2-a13480694ab4 National Endowment for the Humanities 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9798890851567 9781469649474 9781469649481 9781469665535 The University of North Carolina Press 336 Chapel Hill [...] open access |
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