Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by

Willa Cather

A cardinal is one of the most prominent members of the Catholic church hierarchy, second only to the pope. Most cardinals started as bishops or archbishops before being personally selected by the pope for work in Rome. The only cardinal featured in Death Comes for the Archbishop is Garcia Maria de Allande.

Cardinal Quotes in Death Comes for the Archbishop

The Death Comes for the Archbishop quotes below are all either spoken by Cardinal or refer to Cardinal. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Spirituality vs. the Material World Theme Icon
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“At Ácoma,” [Father Jesus] said, “you can see something very holy. They have their portrait of St. Joseph, sent to them by one of the Kings of Spain, long ago, and it has worked many miracles. If the season is dry, the Ácoma people take the picture down to their farms at Ácoma, and it never fails to produce rain. They have rain when none falls in all the country, and may have crops when the Laguna Indians have none.”

Related Characters: Father Jesus (speaker), Jean-Marie Latour, Baltazar Montoya, Garcia Maria de Allande, Father Ferrand
Page Number: 59
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Cardinal Term Timeline in Death Comes for the Archbishop

The timeline below shows where the term Cardinal appears in Death Comes for the Archbishop. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Prologue: At Rome
Colonialism, Industry, and Loss Theme Icon
It’s 1848, and three cardinals are hosting a missionary bishop from America in Rome. As the sun sets, the churchmen... (full context)
Humanity’s Relationship with Nature Theme Icon
Garcia Maria de Allande, the Spanish cardinal, was once one of the most prominent men at the Vatican. After Pope Gregory XVI... (full context)
Colonialism, Industry, and Loss Theme Icon
Memory, Death, and Afterlives Theme Icon
While the cardinals are skeptical that a new vicariate is necessary in New Mexico, Ferrand insists that this... (full context)
Spirituality vs. the Material World Theme Icon
...will not promise that Latour will take on such a search. Night falls, and the cardinals begin to discuss opera. Ferrand is bored by the conversation, and he wonders if his... (full context)