Death Comes for the Archbishop
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1927
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780394421544
Subjects: New mexico, fiction; American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Description: In 1851 French 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 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.