A saint of our own : how the quest for a holy hero helped Catholics become American / Kathleen Sprows Cummings.

"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 A...

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