Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory.
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Archbishop Lamy
Joseph Projectus Machebeuf
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Joseph Projectus Machebeuf was a French Roman Catholic missionary and the first Bishop of Denver.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
…priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. The narrative is based on two historical figures of the late 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, and rather than any one single plot, is the stylized re-telling of their lives serving as Roman Catholic clergy in New Mexico. The narrative has…
Bishop Joseph Projectus Machebeuf