Redemption and Ritual : The Eastern-Rite Redemptorists of North America – 1906-2006

Card covers, French flaps, 421 pages, 6x9 in - 15x23 cm, B&W photographs.

Covers lightly bumped at edges and worn. Fore and bottom edges soiled. Interior bright and clean.

Paul Laverdure is Director of the University of Sudbury’s Library and Archives and a historian of religion. The Redemptorists are a Catholic missionary society founded in 18th century Italy who established a mission near Yorkton, Saskatchewan in 1906 to minister to Slavs living in the area. In this volume, Laverdure chronicles the history of the Yorkton Redemptorists. Shuttling between western Canada and Europe, he describes the Redemptorists’ arrival on the prairies, their establishment of missions (as well as seminaries, publications, and parishes), the group’s expanding engagement with lay people, and a host of organizational, cultural, and financial challenges. With ample reference to archival sources, Laverdure confidently navigates Eastern-rite Catholicism's intricacies and analyzes a century of religious work and change by Yorkton’s Redemptorists. Includes endnotes and index.

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