Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
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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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Fiction, Clergy, History, Missions, Hopi Indians, Navajo Indians, Catholic Church, New mexico, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Large type books, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, American literature, Clergé, Romans, nouvelles, Spanish language materials, Clero, Novela, Clergy -- Fiction, New Mexico -- Fiction, Fiction, christian, historical, Fiction, christian, classic & allegory, Clergy, fictionPlaces
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Death comes for the Archbishop: with related readings
2002, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
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"One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of country somewhere in central New Mexico."
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