Death Comes for the Archbishop

Two nineteenth-century French priests pioneer through the American Southwest in this stunning classic from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Following the Mexican-American War, two French Jesuits leave Sandusky, Ohio, on a mission. Bishop Jean Marie Latour and his friend Father Joseph Vaillant are venturing to New Mexico territory to establish a Roman Catholic diocese. But this is no easy task.

When the Jesuits arrive in the unforgiving landscape, they find a place that is American by law and ...