Death Comes for the Archbishop

About “Death Comes for the Archbishop”

This novel by Willa Cather follows French Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant, dispatched in 1851 to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving across endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith gently while contending with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes rebellious priests, and his own loneliness, leaving converts and enemies over nearly 40 years before a death marks their lasting impact on the land.