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Book Review of Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death Comes for the Archbishop
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The story tells that of a single human life, lived simply in the silence of the desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos. American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and believe. In the almost 40 years taht follow, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows -- gently, although he must contend with an unforgiving landscape.