Saints Of North America

Author : Vincent J. O'Malley
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 1931709521

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Saints of North America by Vincent J. O'Malley Pdf

Learn more about these "local" men and women - and children -- whose examples of holiness prove that personal sanctity is possible right here, right now. The only collection of its kind, each entry includes: a fascinating biographythe places with which the person is associatedhis or her particular ministry, spirituality, and accomplishments the location of a national shrine or headquarters established by those devoted to the saint Help your faith come alive as you discover more about your "neighbors" who lived the Faith heroically

Author : Joseph A. Conforti
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0801882532

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Saints and Strangers by Joseph A. Conforti Pdf

A history of colonial New England, this work synthesizes the scholarship to explore how Puritan saints and "strangers" to Puritanism participated in the making of colonial New England. Aimed at general readers and college students as well as historians, it shows that New England was neither as Puritan nor as insular as most familiar stories imply.

Author : Emma Anderson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674727175

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The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs by Emma Anderson Pdf

In the 1640s--a decade of epidemic and warfare across colonial North America--eight Jesuit missionaries met their deaths at the hands of native antagonists. With their collective canonization in 1930, these men, known to the devout as the North American martyrs, would become the continent's first official Catholic saints. In The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs, Emma Anderson untangles the complexities of these seminal acts of violence and their ever-changing legacy across the centuries. While exploring how Jesuit missionaries perceived their terrifying final hours, the work also seeks to comprehend the motivations of the those who confronted them from the other side of the axe, musket, or caldron of boiling water, and to illuminate the experiences of those native Catholics who, though they died alongside their missionary mentors, have yet to receive comparable recognition as martyrs by the Catholic Church. In tracing the creation and evolution of the cult of the martyrs across the centuries, Anderson reveals the ways in which both believers and detractors have honored and preserved the memory of the martyrs in this "afterlife," and how their powerful story has been continually reinterpreted in the collective imagination over the centuries. As rival shrines rose to honor the martyrs on either side of the U.S.-Canadian border, these figures would both unite and deeply divide natives and non-natives, francophones and anglophones, Protestants and Catholics, Canadians and Americans, forging a legacy as controversial as it has been enduring.

Author : Thomas E. FitzGerald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313390630

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The Orthodox Church by Thomas E. FitzGerald Pdf

The first comprehensive introduction to the Orthodox Church in the United States from 1794 to the present, this text offers a succinct overview of the Church's distinctive history and its particular perspectives on the Christian faith. FitzGerald examines the relationship between the Orthodox Church and other Christian churches in the U.S., as well as the contributions the Orthodox Church has made to the ecumenical movement. This student edition, ideal for classes in American Religion, Denominational History, and American social and cultural history, includes a bibliographic essay intended as a guide for further investigation into aspects of Orthodox Christianity.

Author : Patricia Appelbaum
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469623757

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St. Francis of America by Patricia Appelbaum Pdf

How did a thirteenth-century Italian friar become one of the best-loved saints in America? Around the nation today, St. Francis of Assisi is embraced as the patron saint of animals, beneficently presiding over hundreds of Blessing of the Animals services on October 4, St. Francis's Catholic feast day. Not only Catholics, however, but Protestants and other Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and nonreligious Americans commonly name him as one of their favorite spiritual figures. Drawing on a dazzling array of art, music, drama, film, hymns, and prayers, Patricia Appelbaum explains what happened to make St. Francis so familiar and meaningful to so many Americans. Appelbaum traces popular depictions and interpretations of St. Francis from the time when non-Catholic Americans "discovered" him in the nineteenth century to the present. From poet to activist, 1960s hippie to twenty-first-century messenger to Islam, St. Francis has been envisioned in ways that might have surprised the saint himself. Exploring how each vision of St. Francis has been shaped by its own era, Appelbaum reveals how St. Francis has played a sometimes countercultural but always aspirational role in American culture. St. Francis's American story also displays the zest with which Americans borrow, lend, and share elements of their religious lives in everyday practice.

Author : Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Mark Stokoe,Leonid Kishkovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000052171943

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Orthodox Christians in North America 1794-1994 by Mark Stokoe,Leonid Kishkovsky Pdf

Author : Damascene (Hieromonk),Damascene
Publisher : St. Xenia Skete Press
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Monks
ISBN : IND:30000126667314

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Father Seraphim Rose by Damascene (Hieromonk),Damascene Pdf

Author : Jonathan E. Calvillo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190097790

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The Saints of Santa Ana by Jonathan E. Calvillo Pdf

This book takes readers into the Mexican-majority neighborhoods of Santa Ana, California, a city once dubbed the hardest place to live in the U.S. Jonathan E. Calvillo explores the challenges faced by Mexican immigrants in this working-class city, highlighting how faith practices are central to social interactions and community building. How does faith shape residents' sense of ethnic identity? Drawing on five years of participant observation and in-depthinterviews, The Saints of Santa Ana offers a rich portrait of a fascinating American community.

Author : John Anthony O'Brien
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781928832904

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Saints of the American Wilderness by John Anthony O'Brien Pdf

John A. O'Brien has crafted the terrifying, inspiring, and true tale of the struggles of the Jesuit missionaries seeking to bring Catholicism to the new world.

Author : Arturo J. Pérez-Rodríguez,Miguel Arias
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780829430714

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Saints of the Americas by Arturo J. Pérez-Rodríguez,Miguel Arias Pdf

The strength and vigor of the Catholic Church are nowhere more visible than in North and South America, where hundreds of millions of people claim the Catholic faith. Saints of the Americas features thirty heroes of this New World faith, with representatives from fifteen countries in South America, Central America, North America, and the Caribbean. Through "conversations" between the authors and the saints, readers will be inspired by the stories of Catherine Drezel and Elizabeth Ann Seton, who built schools and hospitals in the United States; martyr Óscar Romero from El Salvador; Venezuelan physician and healer José Gregorio Hernández; Peruvian Rose of Lima, the first saint of the Americas; and others. The faith and perseverance of these martyrs and monks, laypeople and clergy, mystics and activists will encourage people today to make a lasting difference in the world.

Author : Stephen Clissold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018671088

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The Saints of South America by Stephen Clissold Pdf

Author : Dr. John (Ellsworth) Hutchison-Hall
Publisher : St. Eadfrith Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780615835235

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Akathists by Dr. John (Ellsworth) Hutchison-Hall Pdf

An Akathist (from the Greek Akthistos mnos, unseated hymn) is a devotional hymn to a saint, holy event, or one of the persons of the Holy Trinity, which is said in churches or by the faithful in private devotion. This volume contains thirty Akathists, including those to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the Mother of God, as well as other Saints, including several Saints of the British Isles and North America.

Author : JEAN. OLWEN MAYNARD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 1784691704

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Saints of North America by JEAN. OLWEN MAYNARD Pdf

As the Christian message spread across North America, God raised up many holy men and women from a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, to bear witness to him in different ways. Something of that history is explored here.

Author : Sergei Korsun,Lydia Black
Publisher : Printshop of St Job of Pochaev
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0884651924

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Herman: a Wilderness Saint by Sergei Korsun,Lydia Black Pdf

Since his canonization in 1970, St. Herman has been remembered for his just treatment of native peoples and his respect of the environment. Explaining how it came to be that this simple Russian Orthodox monk eventually settled in Kodiak, Alaska, this account brings to light many primary sources that illuminate the story of St. Herman and the wider context of the little-known history of Russian colonization in the Pacific Northwest. Providing a considerable amount of new information about his life, this book also reveals his fascinating connection to St. Seraphim of Sarov, the most universally recognized saint of the Russian Orthodox Church today.