Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Willa Cather
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: 1851-1889
- Setting: New Mexico and Arizona
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Missions or missionaries, Religion, Southwest, Catholics or Catholic Church, Mexico or Mexicans, Clergy, Priests, Deserts, Frontier or pioneer life, Religious life, Cathedrals
- Locales: Canada, Arizona, New Mexico, Southwest (U.S.)
Characters Discussed
Father Jean Marie Latour (zhahn mah- REE lah-TEWR), a devout French priest consecrated as vicar apostolic of New Mexico and bishop of Agathonica in partibus in 1850. With Father Vaillant, his friend and fellow seminarian, he journeys from his old parish on the shores of Lake Ontario to Santa Fé, seat of the new diocese in territory recently acquired from Mexico. In those troubled times, he finds many of the old missions in ruins or abandoned, the Mexican clergy lax and unlearned, the sacraments corrupted by native superstitions. The travels of these two...
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Willa Cather (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Willa Cather (Dictionary of World Biography)Willa Cather (Short Fiction)Willa Cather (Long Fiction)Willa Cather (Identities and Issues)
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