Skip to content

Catalog

You are not logged in |Login

Add to My Lists

More Information

Limit search to available items

Book Cover

book

Book

Book

Author

Woodward, Kenneth L.

Title Making saints : how the Catholic Church determines who becomes a saint, who doesn't, and why / Kenneth L. Woodward.

Imprint

New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1996.

Connect to
Connect to http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon051/97126222.html
Connect to http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon031/97126222.html
Additional Information at Google Books

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	235.24 W911MA	Check Shelf

Description	xv, 462 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note	"A Touchstone book."
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-442) and index.
Contents	The local politics of sainthood -- Saints, their cults, and canonization -- The saint-makers -- The witness of martyrs -- Mystics, visionaries, and wonder-workers -- The science of miracles and the miracles of science -- The structure of holiness : proving heroic virtue -- The harmonics of holiness : interpreting the life of grace -- Popes as saints : canonization as church politics -- Pius IX and the posthumous politics of canonization -- Sanctity and sexuality -- Holiness and the life of the mind -- Conclusion : the future of sainthood.
Summary	A pioneering work of investigative journalism penetrates the Vatican to explain the canonization process and describes the political in-fighting, the medical questions, and the costs of canonization.
Subject	Canonization -- History -- 20th century.
	Blessed -- Biography.
	Blessed. (OCoLC)fst00834274
	Canonization. (OCoLC)fst00845944
	Heiligsprechung (DE-588)4159402-2
	Heiligverklaring.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	0684815303 (paperback)
	9780684815305 (paperback)

-->

Library Links

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español