St. Francis of America : How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America's Most Popular Saint /

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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, Buddhist...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Appelbaum, Patricia Faith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Francis, > of Assisi, Saint, > 1182-1226.
Popular culture > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Popular culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Culture populaire > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Popular culture > United States.
United States.
United States > Religious life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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. 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9781469624990

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