![]() ![]() 65ff), or tales of boys sneaking into the bishop's garden to steal pears (pp. 50), Magdalena's salvation from a wretched life (pp. The Gospel unlocks the story of the mission, and one feels a sense of vertigo when reading about the bishop's donkeys being led by angels (pp. Cather has also transposed the language of Christianity into New Mexico. Latour riding across the desert, wondering how to discipline his dissolute priests and meditating on the inscrutable religious practices of his semi-Catholic Indians. Death Comes for the Archbishop makes the landscapes of the Southwest present to a reader's internal eye. ![]() Instead, the reader is treated to a series of episodes, wherein time moves back and forth, as the two pious priests go about their humble work. ![]() The novel is remarkable, not least because it nowhere features a dramatic or introspective "loss of faith" by its protagonist. Latour to build a diocese and a cathedral, to form into a Catholic people a mixture of Mexicans, Indians, and American Protestants by way of two French missionary priests. Willa Cather chronicles the forty-year mission of Fr. Here is the quiet but arresting story of Father Jean Marie Latour, who in 1851 travels with his childhood friend and fellow priest Joseph Vaillant to take possession of the newly-created diocese of New Mexico. ![]()
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