In this fifth meeting of our new Circle Squared Conversations in the Town Square in Williamsburg at the foot of the oldest academic building in the United States, we continue our nine-month, coast-to-coast contemplative journey across America in place and time. This month’s reading is Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop,” an historical novel assuming the form and atmosphere of a saint’s life, a cycle of legends, or a series of frescoes. It is a moving meditation on how a human life acquires meaning through attention, fidelity, friendship, and ritual form.