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Death comes for the archbishop
Format:
Book
Title:
Death comes for the archbishop
ISBN:
9780394421544
Publication:
New York, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
Physical Description:
299 pages ; 20 cm
General Note:
"A borzoi book"

In printed pictorial dust jacket; publishers' price on page [2] of upper jacket; title in red and black; title within black borders; title vignette (publishers' device) in red at tail of title; series, copyright, publication, and issue statements from title verso.

Originally published 1927.

The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection.
Summary:
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.
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