American Saint

Author : Joan Barthel
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250037152

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American Saint by Joan Barthel Pdf

In this riveting biography of Elizabeth Seton critically acclaimed and bestselling author Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life featured wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774. Her father was the chief health officer for the Port of New York and she lived down the block from Alexander Hamilton. She danced at George Washington's sixty-fifth Birthday Ball wearing cream slippers, monogrammed. Catholicism was illegal in New York when she was born; Catholic priests seen in the city were arrested, sometimes hung. When Elizabeth and her wealthy husband Will sailed to Italy in a doomed attempt to cure his tuberculosis, she and her family were quarantined in a damp dungeon. And when Elizabeth later became a Catholic, she was so scorned that people talked of burning down her house. American Saint is the inspiring story of a brave woman who forged the way for the other women who followed and who made a name for herself in a world entirely ruled by men. Elizabeth resisted male clerical control of her religious order, as nuns are doing today, and the publication of her story could not be more timely. Maya Angelou has contributed the foreword.

Author : Sean Gandert
Publisher : 47North
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Albuquerque (N.M.)
ISBN : 1542044057

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American Saint by Sean Gandert Pdf

Raised in a poor neighborhood in Albuquerque by his mother and curandera grandmother, Gabriel Romero grows up fervently religious, privately conflicted, and consumed by what he's certain is the true will of God. A radical activist determined to enlighten the consciousness of a country losing its way, Gabriel starts his own church, and his miracles go viral, casting him as either a charlatan or a saint. But Gabriel is determined to see his divine mission to its startling end. -- adapted from jacket

Author : John Wigger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199741250

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American Saint by John Wigger Pdf

English-born Francis Asbury was one of the most important religious leaders in American history. Asbury single-handedly guided the creation of the American Methodist church, which became the largest Protestant denomination in nineteenth-century America, and laid the foundation of the Holiness and Pentecostal movements that flourish today. John Wigger has written the definitive biography of Asbury and, by extension, a revealing interpretation of the early years of the Methodist movement in America. Asbury emerges here as not merely an influential religious leader, but a fascinating character, who lived an extraordinary life. His cultural sensitivity was matched only by his ability to organize. His life of prayer and voluntary poverty were legendary, as was his generosity to the poor. He had a remarkable ability to connect with ordinary people, and he met with thousands of them as he crisscrossed the nation, riding more than one hundred and thirty thousand miles between his arrival in America in 1771 and his death in 1816. Indeed Wigger notes that Asbury was more recognized face-to-face than any other American of his day, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

Author : Barbara Tutt
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781538372449

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She Followed Them: Frances Cabrini, the First American Saint by Barbara Tutt Pdf

Frances Cabrini was a Catholic nun who left her home in Italy for New York City in the 1800s. She became the first American saint. Cabrini founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She dedicated her life to housing and educating orphans, and other charitable acts. Readers of this innovative play will see Cabrini's life unfold on stage. They'll learn about the challenges Italian immigrants faced in their new country. Historical photographs illustrate Cabrini's life. Stage directions, costume and prop notes, and character descriptions help readers easily perform the play themselves.

Author : Peter Lion
Publisher : WindRiver Publishing, Inc.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1886249083

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The American St. Nick by Peter Lion Pdf

American soldiers are more than combatants on a battlefield, they are also representatives of America and her people. On an overcast day in 1944, two soldiers from the 28th Infantry Division gave a remarkable Christmas gift to the people of Wiltz, Luxembourg - a gift that changed the people of Wiltz forever.

Author : John Aaron Wright
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1883982456

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Discovering African American St. Louis by John Aaron Wright Pdf

African Americans have been part of the story of St. Louis since the city's founding in 1764. Unfortunately, most histories of the city have overlooked or ignored their vital role, allowing their influence and accomplishments to go unrecorded or uncollected; that is, until the publication of Discovering African American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites in 1994. A new and updated 2002 edition is now available to take readers on a fascinating tour of nearly four hundred African American landmarks. From the boyhood home of jazz great Miles Davis in East St. Louis, Illinois, to the site of the house that sparked the landmark Shelley v. Kraemer court case, the maps, photographs, and text of Discovering African American St. Louis record a history that has been neglected for too long. The guidebook covers fourteen regions east and west of the Mississippi that represent St. Louis's rich African American heritage. In the words of historian Gary Kremer, "No one who reads this book and visits and contemplates the places and peoples whose stories it recounts will be able to look at St. Louis in the same way ever again."

Author : Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469649481

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A Saint of Our Own by Kathleen Sprows Cummings Pdf

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.

Author : Catherine O'Donnell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501726019

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Elizabeth Seton by Catherine O'Donnell Pdf

In 1975, two centuries after her birth, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton, making her the first saint to be a native-born citizen of the United States in the Roman Catholic Church. Seton came of age in Manhattan as the city and her family struggled to rebuild themselves after the Revolution, explored both contemporary philosophy and Christianity, converted to Catholicism from her native Episcopalian faith, and built the St. Joseph’s Academy and Free School in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Hers was an exemplary early American life of struggle, ambition, questioning, and faith, and in this flowing biography, Catherine O’Donnell has given Seton her due. O’Donnell places Seton squarely in the context of the dynamic and risky years of the American and French Revolutions and their aftermath. Just as Seton’s dramatic life was studded with hardship, achievement, and grief so were the social, economic, political, and religious scenes of the Early American Republic in which she lived. O’Donnell provides the reader with a strong sense of this remarkable woman’s intelligence and compassion as she withstood her husband’s financial failures and untimely death, undertook a slow conversion to Catholicism, and struggled to reconcile her single-minded faith with her respect for others’ different choices. The fruit of her labors were the creation of a spirituality that embraced human connections as well as divine love and the American Sisters of Charity, part of an enduring global community with a specific apostolate for teaching. The trove of correspondence, journals, reflections, and community records that O’Donnell weaves together throughout Elizabeth Seton provides deep insight into her life and her world. Each source enriches our understanding of women’s friendships and choices, illuminates the relationships within the often-opaque world of early religious communities, and upends conventional wisdom about the ways Americans of different faiths competed and collaborated during the nation’s earliest years. Through her close and sympathetic reading of Seton’s letters and journals, O’Donnell reveals Seton the person and shows us how, with both pride and humility, she came to understand her own importance as Mother Seton in the years before her death in 1821.

Author : John A. Wright Sr.,John A. Wright Jr.,Curtis A. Wright Sr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439655610

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African American St. Louis by John A. Wright Sr.,John A. Wright Jr.,Curtis A. Wright Sr. Pdf

The city of St. Louis is known for its African American citizens and their many contributions to the culture within its borders, the country, and the world. Images of Modern America: African American St. Louis profiles some of the events that helped shape St. Louis from the 1960s to the present. Tracing key milestones in the city’s history, this book attempts to pay homage to those African Americans who sacrificed to advance fair socioeconomic conditions for all. In the closing decades of the Great Migration north, the civil rights movement was taking place nationally; simultaneously, St. Louis’s African Americans were organizing to exert political power for greater control over their destiny. Protests, voter registration, and elections to public office opened new doors to the city’s African Americans. It resulted in the movement for fairness in hiring practices and the expansion of the African American presence in sports, education, and entertainment.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015081242037

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business Pdf

Author : Alice L. Camille,Paul Boudreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 1616366370

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Fearless by Alice L. Camille,Paul Boudreau Pdf

The lives of the saints who helped build the Catholic Church in the United States--Frances Cabrini, Isaac Jogues, John Neumann, Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Damien de Veuster, among others--are marked by strength, courage, determination, and sanctity. But as this thoughtful and engaging book points out, these saints also could be foolhardy, obstinate, stubborn, and dismissive. In other words, they were a lot like everyone, with a mixture of different qualities and characteristics. What makes the stories of the thirteen men and women in Fearless so compelling is that a distinctly American way of holiness begins to emerge from their lives and their work. These were people who walked the streets of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Denver. They traveled along California' s coast and into the Southwest, penetrated the heartland of Indiana and Missouri, and reached out into the territorial islands of the United States. Captivating illustrations for each saint highlight the depth of their souls, and give readers an idea of the strong characteristics exemplified by these men and women. Fearless will bring the reader through the history of the Catholic Church in America in an intimate and personal way, with the stories of the saints and blessed who helped Christianity become part of this country' s fabric. These men and women did not set out to be saints, only to live out the Gospel as they best knew how. They followed their hearts and God' s will to build a better place for the people of the New World.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006324698

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Competiteve Problems of Independant Flat-glass Dealers, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of ... , 85-2 on Dual Distribution Methods ... , July 30 and 31, October 9 and 10, 1958 by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business,United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Flat glass industry
ISBN : LOC:00187028036

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Competitive Problems of Independent Flat-glass Dealers by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business,United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357359

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Robert Webster
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498273435

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Perfecting Perfection by Robert Webster Pdf

Henry D. Rack is one of the most profound historians of the Methodist movement in modern times. He has spent a lifetime researching and writing about the rise and significance of John Wesley and his Methodist followers in the eighteenth century and has also uncovered the historical significance of the Methodist Church in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Collected here in this volume are thirteen essays honoring the life and scholarship of Dr. Rack from a host of international scholars in the field. The topics range from Wesley's view of grace in the eighteenth century to the dynamic intersection of the Methodist and Tractarian movements in the nineteenth century. A bibliographical essay of Rack's most prominent publications in the field of Methodist studies is also provided. In the end, the collection of essays offered here in honor of Dr. Rack will be engaging and provocative for considering Methodist Studies in the present and future generations.