Title: A brief history of saints /
Authors: Cunningham, Lawrence.; Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Christian saints Cult History.; Canonization History.
Abstract: A brief history of saints follows the rise of the cult of saints in Christianity from its origin in the age of the martyrs down to the present day.
Contents: The saint : beginnings -- The bureaucratization of sanctity -- Reformations : Protestant and Catholic -- Towards the modern world -- The twentieth century -- The saints, world religions, and the future.