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Book Review of Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death Comes for the Archbishop
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Straight from the imagination of one of Americas premier writers, this is a story of stories about the development of New Mexico in the 1850s. It is of the poor Mexican and Native American Catholics and the building of their mostly poor parishes. It is history as well as the human experience; it is faith in the extreme; survival in a barren wilderness. And, there is no one better to tell of these adventures (as such they are) than Willa Cather.