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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
37,994 ratings3,903 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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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.
7 de jan. de 2023 · A historical fiction novel about the life and death of a Catholic bishop in New Mexico. Download or read online for free in various formats, including EPUB, Kindle, and plain text.
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