I'll do a review next week on Death Comes for the Archbishop, but today I wanted to post pictures from my trip to Santa Fe in December. When I read Death Comes for the Archbishop the first time, I wanted so badly to go to Santa Fe for the express purpose of seeing the cathedral. I did that and found it to be every bit as Cather described it--austere yet beautiful, spiritual, and very Catholic. I loved the style of paintings inside as they are endemic of the time and place that the cathedral was built. The book is based on the lives of Fathers Lamy and Machebeuf (Latour and Vaillant) as they carve out a space for the Catholic church among the Mexican and Native populations of the area.
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