The miracle of Santa Maria

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Label

The miracle of Santa Maria

Statement of responsibility

I.J. Parnham

Creator

• Parnham, I. J

Subject

• trueCrimes against women
• trueFrontier and pioneer life
• trueGunfights -- The West (United States)
• trueMass murder
• Missions -- Ficion
• trueNuns
• trueOutlaws
• truePsychic trauma in women
• trueSwindlers and swindling
• trueThe West (United States) -- History -- 19th century
• Western fiction
• trueWesterns
• trueWomen in comas
• trueCatholic Church -- Missions

Genre

• Western fiction
• trueWesterns
• Ficion

Language

eng

Summary

The Mission Santa Maria catered to Sundown's needs until bandits killed the nuns. The young novice Maria was the only survivor, but the massacre she witnessed sent her into an endless sleep. Nobody could rouse her and so for two years she lay sleeping in the mission gradually becoming weaker until one day she caught Bishop Finnegan's attention. Sadly he decides to close the mission, an act that's sure to speed her demise. With her outlook bleak, the devious snake-oil seller Fergal O'Brien rides into town. Although Fergal is usually only interested in making a quick dollar, Maria's plight touches him and so he tries to wake her with what he claims is his universal remedy to cure all ills

Member of

• Avalon western

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

• An Avalon western
• A Fergal O'Brien western

Target audience

adult