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St. Francis of America : how a thirteenth-century friar became America's most popular saint / Patricia Appelbaum.

Appelbaum, Patricia Faith, author.
2015
BX4700.F6 A766 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
St. Francis of America : how a thirteenth-century friar became America's most popular saint / Patricia Appelbaum.
Author
Appelbaum, Patricia Faith, author.
ISBN
9781469623740 hardcover alkaline paper
1469623749 hardcover alkaline paper
Published
Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Language
English
Description
xiii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
BX4700.F6 A766 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
271/.302
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The nineteenth century : a Protestant Catholic and Catholic Protestants
The early 1900s : everyone's saint
Between the wars : peace, play, and protest
Hymn, prayer, and garden
Postwar prosperity : embrace and resistance
The hippie saint : counterculture and ecology
Blessing the animals
Living voices
Into the future
Epilogue
Appendix : survey : you and St. Francis.

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