Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

A gentle French missionary bishop and his robust vicar labour across decades and hundreds of desert miles to rebuild the faith among the Mexican villages and Indian pueblos of newly American New Mexico, and to raise a cathedral of golden stone. Cather's serene, radiant masterpiece.

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