Brother Juniper's Letter

In the last chapter of The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, Perhaps an Intention, Brother Juniper and his book are burned at the stake. The reason for such an act of torture being that someone found his work as atheistic or agnostic. Brother Juniper didn't intend for his work to be condemned, he intended to find out why God chose those five people that plummeted into the gulf below the Bridge of San Luis Rey and to prove that it perhaps it actually wasn't an accident, but an intention.

It is also in this chapter when Dona Clara visits the abbess to bring Marquesa's final letter that is about love. The abbess shows Clara the good work that is being done for the ill.

Camila Perichole realizes that she had failed to love her son, Don Jamie, and Uncle Pio as well. She yet again turned away Uncle
We learn why Camelia shut out Uncle Pio, why Clara visits the abbess, and most importantly what Brother Juniper's work revealed to him. Which was that these five people died by, perhaps, an intention.

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Perhaps an Intention:

Brother Juniper was determined to find the reason that these people were chosen by God to die in that place, on that day. Juniper is caught by surprise when his book is condemned as atheistic or agnostic by the holy judges. He is sentenced to death and soon burned at the stake as he calls out the name of St. Francis twice. A funeral service is held for the five victims of the bridge accident at a cathedral in Lima. The narrator tells very little about the outcome of the fall of the Bridge on San Luis Rey.

Camila Perichole comes to the realization that she failed to love Jamie and Uncle Pio. Due to her small pox she turned away Uncle Pio whom had still loved her. Uncle Pio and Jamie are later killed going home as they cross the bridge.

We learn Clara visits the abbess to bring Marquesa’s final letter about love. She is shown the good work that is being done for the