Death Comes for the Archbishop
- ISBN-10
- 0078261023
- ISBN-13
- 9780078261022
- Series
- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Category
- Clergy
- Pages
- 194
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-03
- Authors
- Willa Cather, Mcgraw-Hill-Glencoe Staff
Description
Father John Marie Latour, a wise and patrician French priest, enters the wilderness of New Mexico to establish a Roman Catholic diocese. Father Latour must overcome the hostility of his subordinates and his own deep loneliness in this vast and mysterious land.
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