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Book: Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes

Chapter: 77. Why would Indigenous people venerate Roman Catholic saints?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.43192

Blurb:

It is well known that the Catholic faith arrived upon the shores of the Americas hand in hand with colonization, and so the question is: why would Indigenous people venerate Roman Catholic saints? A deceptively simple answer might be because within the history of saints we find quite a few Indigenous people.

Chapter Contributors

  • Daniel Nourry Burgos ([email protected] - dburgos) 'University of Texas at Austin, PhD candidate'