Death Comes for the Archbishop

Two priests. One mission. A new world to be built on faith. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), by Willa Cather, is a lyrical and deeply moving novel that tells the story of two French Catholic missionaries sent to establish a diocese in the vast deserts of New Mexico during the 19th century. At its heart is the friendship between Father Jean Marie Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, whose...