Two Roman Catholic priests travel and work in the American Southwest of the 1850's. This book, which reads like a series of short stories, relates their encounters with many different people. The Roman Catholic Church played a defining role in that region, first through the Spanish, whose descendents welcomed the priests and later through the missions. We own this title in English and Spanish.
As you comment on this book, see if you can make some sense of the title itself. What does Death Comes for the Archbishop refer to?
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I think the title refers to more than just a physical death. As the archbishop nears death he reflects upon his childhood in France, but he seems to be closing that part of his life and becoming a part of this new land. This desert and the people that inhabit it have truly become his own.
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