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Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather is a mesmerizing tale of faith, perseverance, and the untamed beauty of the American Southwest. Follow the journey of Bishop Latour and his friend Father Vaillant as they navigate the challenges of building a diocese in a rugged... Read Full Overview

In the vast and untamed landscapes of the American Southwest, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather paints a profound and poignant portrait of faith, resilience, and the human spirit. Set in the mid-19th century, this classic novel follows the journey of Father Jean... Read Full Overview

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather is a mesmerizing tale of faith, perseverance, and the untamed beauty of the American Southwest. Follow the journey of Bishop Latour and his friend Father Vaillant as they navigate the challenges of building a diocese in a rugged... Read Full Overview

A towering work of twentieth-century American literature, Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop tells the story of the French Catholic priest Jean Marie Latour, the first bishop of the diocese of New Mexico, which was created after the Mexican-American War. With... Read Full Overview

In the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, two French Jesuit priests travel to the American Southwest to establish a new Roman Catholic diocese. Upon arrival, Father Jean Marie Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant encounter an ethnically diverse population in an unforgiving landscape,... Read Full Overview

For the 150th anniversary of Willa Cather's birth, and for the first time in Penguin Classics, her quietly beautiful novel of one man's life as he encounters the harsh landscape of the New Mexico desert and the people who inhabit it, with an introduction by National Book Award... Read Full Overview

In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith... Read Full Overview

In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched 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... Read Full Overview

About Death Comes for the Archbishop Death Comes for the Archbishop by American author Willa Cather is a work of literary fiction first published in the US. ' The Miracles of the Church seem to me not to rest so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near... Read Full Overview