Death comes for the archbishop

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Willa Cather: Death comes for the archbishop (1929, A. A. Knopf)

343 pages

English language

Published 1929 by A. A. Knopf.

OCLC Number:
2518221

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In 1851 French Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are dispatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows-- gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Over nearly 40 years, they leave converts and enemies, crosses, and occasionally ecstasy in their wake. But it takes a death for them to make their mark on the landscape forever.

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Subjects

  • Clergy -- Fiction
  • New Mexico -- Fiction