Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by Willa Cather.
It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in the territory of New Mexico.
It is based on the careers of Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy and Father Joseph Machebeuf .
The primary characters are Father Joseph Vallient and Bishop Latour. The Two French holy men are displaced from their Ohio church and sent to the newly established diocese in New Mexico