Download or read book Black Saint of the Americas written by Celia Cussen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1962, as the struggle for civil rights heated up in the United States and leaders of the Catholic Church prepared to meet for Vatican Council II, Pope John XXIII named the first black saint of the Americas, the Peruvian Martín de Porres (1579–1639), and designated him the patron of racial justice. The son of a Spanish father and a former slavewoman from Panamá, Martín served a lifetime as the barber and nurse at the great Dominican monastery in Lima. This book draws on visual representations of Martín and the testimony of his contemporaries to produce the first biography of this pious and industrious black man from the cosmopolitan capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru. The book vividly chronicles the evolving interpretations of his legend and his miracles, and traces the centuries-long campaign to formally proclaim Martín de Porres a hero of universal Catholicism.

Download or read book The Life and Afterlife of Fray Martin de Porres Afroperuvian Saint written by Celia Cussen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first scholarly study of the life of the black Peruvian saint, Martín de Porres (1579-1639).

Download or read book Martin de Porres written by Joan Monahan and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young adult biography of the African-Spanish saint, Martin de Porres, patron of social and interracial justice.

Download or read book Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism written by Erin Kathleen Rowe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church. It speaks to race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, and provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority.

Download or read book The Life of Blessed Mart n de Porres written by father John Chrysostom Kearns and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Graceful Living written by Johnnette Benkovic and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Johnnette Benkovic bestselling author and host on the EWTN Global Catholic Network comes these short but powerful daily meditations taken from Scripture and the writings of the saints. Designed as a day-by-day spiritual resource, this book features 365 quotes along with a short meditation to enrich your mind, lift your spirit, and feed your soul.

Download or read book Fugitive Saints written by Katie Walker Grimes and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should the Catholic church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to their relation to black slavery. Today, many of their racial virtues seem like racial vices. In this way, the church celebrates Peter Claver, a seventeenth-century Spanish missionary to Colombia, as “the saint of the slave trade,” and extols Martín de Porres as the patron saint of mixed race people. But in truth, their sainthoods have upheld anti-blackness much more than they have undermined it. Habituated by anti-blackness, the church has struggled to perceive racial holiness accurately. In the ongoing cause to canonize Pierre Toussaint, a Haitian-born former slave, the church continues to enact these bad racial habits. This book proposes black fugitivity, as both a historical practice and an interpretive principle, to be a strategy by which the church can build new hagiographical habits. Rather than searching inside itself for racial heroes, the church should learn to celebrate those black fugitives who sought refuge outside of it.

Download or read book The American Catholic Historical Researches written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Index to American Catholic Pamphlets written by Eugene Paul Willging and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book African Saints African Stories written by Camille Lewis Brown and published by Franciscan Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book designed for personal prayer, reflection and possible retreat time, but basically it is a text for all to commune with the saints. It includes four parts in each of its forty chapters. These sections have a brief biography of each holy person, a relevant passage from Scripture, a brief prayer and a few reflection questions. The first thirty chapters of this book address hoy men and women that the church has already officially recognised as a saint, blessed or venerable. The final ten chapters of the book celebrate the lives of mena nd women who have contributed to the Catholic church but remain without one of these titles. (Adapted from page 2).

Download or read book The Annual American Catalogue 1886 1900 written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Catholic Historical Researches written by Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of Blessed Martin de Porres written by J. C. Kearns and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.

Download or read book The American Catholic Quarterly Review written by James Andrew Corcoran and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish American War and Other Items of Interest written by Edward A. Johnson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following title is a non-fiction book covering the history of how African-Americans served as soldiers during the Spanish-American war. They saw it as a way to advance the cause of equality, service to the country, hopefully helping to gain political and public respect amongst the wider population. They served in various military branches and had their own regiments, and those who served in the Army were said to have gained prestige from their wartime performance. This book was written by Edward A. Johnson, an attorney who became the first African-American member of the New York state legislature.