| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World. Ed. by Margaret Cormack. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 280 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-630-9.)

This book culls a dozen well-researched and interesting essays on a variety of Catholic saint cults in several distinct locales around the "Atlantic World": John Corrigan surveys Catholic approaches to missionizing in colonial North America; Giovanna Fiume traces the history of devotion to St. Benedict of Palermo in Latin America; Rodger Payne details the rise and fall of the cult of St. Amico among Italian immigrants in Louisiana; Juan Javier Pescador writes on the emergence of the cult of the Holy Child of Atocha in Mexican Catholicism; Robert Westerfelhaus theorizes the function of kitsch in devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City; Patrick J. Hayes describes devotions at the grave of Father Patrick Power in Massachusetts; Michael Pasquier analyzes the largely unsuccessful attempt by the Catholic diocese of New Orleans to nationalize devotion to Our Lady of Prompt Succor; Nicholas M. Beasley investigates English iconoclasm in colonial Latin America; Tessa Garton undertakes an art-historical analysis of the influences of pilgrimage on religious art in medieval Ireland; Robert E. Scully explicates the remarkable endurance of devotion at St. Winefride's well in Wales; Margaret Cormack looks at the relationship between holy wells and national identity in Iceland; and Ryan K. Smith investigates the shrine-like realities at Florida's Fountain of Youth.

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