false 545951 0679728899 9780679728894 2732 339 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175694026m/545951.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545951.Death_Comes_for_the_Archbishop 881203 Willa Cather 28665 2946 4 0 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 20 16:10:34 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 16:18:17 -0700 2008
This book is simply a great story, well told. Plus, it explored a time and place with which I am fairly unfamiliar - the New Mexico frontier in the mid-19th century. It is a book about being a missionary, and in this case, a picture is painted not of marauding colonialists or over-zealous invaders, but of kind-hearted, self-sacrificing, lovers of men, women, and most of all, God.

While the main character is a French Roman Catholic priest, a thoughtful Protestant should find the spiritual depth of this story rewarding and inspiring. Cather writes with lucid and original language and manages to evoke much emotion in the reader, drawing him or her into the lives of these adventurous priests and their Mexican and Native American friends and parishoners.]]>