Thank you Saint Jude

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The fascinating book tells the story of American women’s devotion to Saint Jude. Robert Orsi examines Saint Jude’s rise from obscurity to national popularity| beginning in Chicago in 1929| and he shows how the daughters and grandaughters of Catholic immigrants called on the saint to help them make lives for themselves in the tumultuous years of the Depression and the Second World War| and for strength in changing workplaces and family lives.