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English. Publisher. Alfred A. Knopf. Publication date. 1927. Text. Death Comes for the Archbishop online. Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory .
- Willa Cather
- 1927
37,856 ratings3,882 reviews. Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop traces the friendship and adventures of Bishop Jean Latour and vicar Father Joseph Vaillant as they organize the new Roman Catholic diocese of New Mexico. Latour is patrician, intellectual, and introverted; Vaillant, practical, outgoing, and sanguine.
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The novel follows the journey and challenges of Father Jean Marie Latour, a French Jesuit missionary priest in the New Mexico territory in the mid-nineteenth century. He faces corrupt and lazy priests, hostile natives, harsh weather, and personal doubts as he tries to revive the Catholic Church in the region.
Soon after, Latour dies, murmuring his final words to Vaillant. The next day, he is buried in the cathedral he built. Get all the key plot points of Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.
16 de jun. de 1990 · From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times), an epic story of a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern...
