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Sada is a Santa Fé local, the longtime servant to an abusive American family known only as “the Smiths.” Though Sada’s Protestant employers forbid her from going to Catholic church, Sada has remained devoted to her religious practices for 19 secretive years. One night, Latour sees her near the church, and he lets her in and blesses her; Sada’s continued faith causes Latour to reflect that “this church was Sada’s house, and he was a servant in it.”
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Book 7: December Night
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Never, as [Latour] afterward told Father Vaillant, had it been permitted him to behold such deep experience of the holy joy of religion as on that pale December night. He was able to feel, kneeling beside [Sada], the preciousness of the things of the altar to her who was without possessions; the tapers, the image of the Virgin, the figures of the Saints, the cross that took away indignity from suffering and made pain and poverty a means of fellowship with Christ. Kneeling beside the much enduring bondwoman, he experienced those holy mysteries as he had done in his young manhood. He seemed able to feel all it meant to her to know that there was a Kind Woman in Heaven, though there were such cruel ones on earth.
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Sada Quotes in Death Comes for the Archbishop
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Book 7: December Night
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Never, as [Latour] afterward told Father Vaillant, had it been permitted him to behold such deep experience of the holy joy of religion as on that pale December night. He was able to feel, kneeling beside [Sada], the preciousness of the things of the altar to her who was without possessions; the tapers, the image of the Virgin, the figures of the Saints, the cross that took away indignity from suffering and made pain and poverty a means of fellowship with Christ. Kneeling beside the much enduring bondwoman, he experienced those holy mysteries as he had done in his young manhood. He seemed able to feel all it meant to her to know that there was a Kind Woman in Heaven, though there were such cruel ones on earth.
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