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Inside This Issue:

Director’s Message ...... 2

Remarkable Characters . . . . 3

Baraga Days Schedule . . . . 6

Visit our website at fredericbaraga.org! Train Travel ...... 7 Lives Touched by Bishop Baraga An Adventurer ...... 11 Peter Crebassa was born in the Association News ...... 13 Red River County of Canada, August 15, 1807… In 1837 at La Support the Cause ...... 15 Pointe he married Nancy Roussain. The Blessing of Bishop Baraga’s Cross at Cross River, near Shroeder, Baraga presided at the wedding. In Lives Touched by Baraga . 16 Minnesota on September 11, 1932 by Bishop Thomas A. Welch, D.D. 1838 they moved to L’anse, MI of Duluth, MN. A large gathering of priests and laity were present on where he established his own trad- this occasion. (Refer to The Baraga Bulletin Spring 2012 for full article) ing post and served as postmaster. M The Crebassa’s brought their first three children to La Pointe so Baraga could baptize them. They raised their large family in L’anse, MI where many of their descen- dants still reside. (Taken from The Diary of Bishop Frederic Baraga On Tuesday, p.42) March 26, 2013, I recently had the great pleasure Most Rev. Alexander K. Sample, Archbishop-designate of Portland, to talk to Mr. & Mrs. Crebassa’s Oregon, hosted a Groundbreaking great grandson, Garet M. Peters on The Baraga Bulletin (ISSN 1047-5044) is published by Ceremony for the construction of the phone. Mr. Peters’ The Bishop Baraga Association the Bishop Baraga Chapel in the 347 Rock Street Grandmother is the daughter of Marquette, MI 49855
906-227-9117 St. Peter Cathedral Courtyard, Peter & Nancy Crebassa. www.fredericbaraga.org Marquette, Michigan Visits by Appointment Pride Printing & Mailing Services of Marquette 2 - The Baraga Bulletin — Spring 2013 Spring 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 15

A Message From Our Executive Director May 16, 2013 Help Support the Cause! Dear Friends In Christ: Membership Information Shipping/Handling Charges Greetings in the Lord! We continue our work in the diocese and at this time, we have a Diocesan Membership entitles you to receive the Total Amount of Order . . . Shipping Charge Administrator, Fr. Francis Dobrzenski, who is doing a good job keeping things going. Yet, we earnestly pray quarterly publication The Baraga Bulletin that we will soon have a bishop who will be our leader in all things, but most importantly, in the cause for Worldwide Up to $25.00 ...... $5.00 Sainthood for Bishop Baraga. We are still preparing for the Baraga Days which will be held in Duluth in Annual ...... $10.00 Up to $50.00 ...... $7.00 Life (Individual/Family) . . . . . $50.00 October. I hope that you will join us for this. We really need your support and your presence at this special Over $50.00 ...... $10.00 (no shipping charge added) event. There has been no news as of this date from Rome on our last miracle. Yet, we have to remain patient. Bishop Baraga had much patience and it is from him that we learn the best example of patience. Now as we enter into summer, I am sure that you probably are preparing for many different experiences (summer vaca- The Apostle of the Chippewas (soft cover) M. . .e .r . c. h. . a. .n . d. .i s. .e ...... $10.00 tions!). I hope and pray that our Venerable Fredric Baraga will be with you to guide you. May his prayers Diary of Bishop Baraga (soft cover) ...... $20.00 keep you safe. My prayers are for you and yours as well. Baraga Dictionary of the Ojibway Language (soft cover) ...... $24.95 Short History of North American Indians by Baraga (soft cover) ...... $34.95 Dokler ne dobimo, bod vas blagoslovi s svojim dobroto! Life and Labors of Rt. Rev. Baraga by Fr. Verwyst (soft cover) ...... $22.00 (Until we meet, may God bless you with His goodness!) T-Shirts 100% Cotton (M, L, XL, XXL) ...... $12.50 Coffee Mugs ...... $6.00 Marble Based Paperweight (engravable) ...... $10.00 By Cross and Anchor (soft cover) ...... $15.00 Rev. Benedetto J. J. Paris Executive Director, Bishop Baraga Association History of the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie & Marquette (3 vol. hard cover) ...... $20.00 Misc. Baraga Notecards, including 1984 USPS Postcard ...... $1.50 Baraga County Beautiful & Blessed License Plate ...... $6.50 Christmas Ornaments ...... $10.00 FDeraro frmien dtsh, e Editor… It is incredible how quick the time goes. This month marks my 1 year Anniversary at the Baraga NEW!! NEW!! Description Quantity Cost Each Total BY CROSS & A NCHOR Association. It has been a great year full of endless opportunities to meet many wonderful supporters of Bishop $15.00 (soft cover) Baraga and the Association. I have also been blessed with the chance to delve deeper into Baraga’s history and learn more about the X = significant impact he had on the Upper Peninsula and to Catholicism in general. One thing remains X = unchanged from the day I started in this position and that is my belief that we still have much work to do. X = There are so many people (including our Youth) that do not know Frederic Baraga. We must continue to teach X = others about him and to strive to be like him. Sending support for the cause: Sub Total = In that regard, the Association has once again been blessed. Following in Baraga’s spirit of generosity, the For prayer request of Singing Slovenes and a group from Duluth have been working tirelessly to plan the upcoming Baraga Days Shipping (see chart) = that will be hosted in their area. We know that holding the event in Duluth may add some distance and cost In Thanksgiving for Membership = HISTORY OF THE for some travelers. Given that concern, the group has been fundraising to help keep the cost down, especially DIOCESE OF SAULT STE . In Memory of Total: (U.S. Funds) = of the meals and the venue. The Association would like to offer a special “Thank You” to them for their com - MARIE & M ARQUETTE mitment to Venerable Frederic Baraga and to Baraga Days. It is with the diligent work of people like these $20.00 (3 volume Please ship order to: hardcover) that others will come to know and love God’s Faithful Servant. Thank You! Name As for Baraga Days, you will receive a ticket for each meal that you attend this year. If you are traveling with a group, your trip coordinator will receive the tickets upon arrival at the hotel. If you are traveling inde - Street pendently, I will mail your tickets to you so please indicate the address you would prefer them to be sent to. City State Zip Each person that attends the Banquets will receive a Baraga Days 2013 button. You will be able to pick that up at the Banquet. Hopefully this will help expedite the “check-in” process for the dinners. Ì Check here if gift, send to: I look forward to seeing many of you in Duluth. If you need assistance with planning your trip please feel Card acknowledgement sent by the Bishop Baraga Association to the recipient should read: free to contact me. God Bless, Send to: Bishop Baraga Association, 347 Rock, Marquette, MI 49855 Len 14 - The Baraga Bulletin — Spring 2013 Spring 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 3

Association News Fresh from the Shadow of Frederic Baraga: Michael Oberg; Mrs. Dorothy Morgan Webber; Kianne Wendt; Moving? Please let us know so Some Other Remarkable Characters Occhietti; Michael & Catherine we can update our records! By Michael J. Dunn Pilon; Carol Plowe; Marshall JOIN THE BISHOP BARAGA It is often said that people are judged by the friends retrieved and moved back to Cincinnati. Randall; Patricia Reynders; Wayne BIRTHDAY CLUB We extend a special thank you to they keep. Sometimes, though, relationships are loos - Father Baraga arrived at his Ottawa mission at Arbre Roy; Edward Sanderson; Mary Ann Do you or anyone you know share all that have written to inform us of er than that, just accidental associations or connec - Croche in northern Lower Michigan in 1831. He had St.Andre; Greg Stalboerger; Jeff & the birthday of June 29th with deaths and changes of address. tions. In the case of Venerable Frederic Baraga (1797- as his nearest fellow priest the missionary recently Debbie Uren; Fr. Gregory L. Bishop Baraga? Please if we have your name mis - 1868), the Church has judged him by his heroic virtues assigned to Mackinac Island by Bishop Fenwick. He Veneklase; Herbert Wagner; Kathy For years, lifetime member, June spelled or you know of anyone not rather than his associations, but if we look around was young Father Samuel Mazzuchelli. He had Weber; Chris White; Ms. Evonne Burich, has promoted the life of receiving the newsletter that among the accidental details of his life, we can run learned of the crying need for missionaries in America Winger; Bishop Baraga. Please write to should be receiving it, let us know! across some very interesting people with whom he had while he was in a Dominican seminary in his native her if you or someone special A gentle reminder - the post office casual associations but were important or interesting in Italy, and he had interrupted his studies when he was NEW YOUTH MEMBERS shares the same Birthday as our does not forward 3rd class mail. If their own right, completely apart from their playing a a sub deacon to complete his studies and serve under Sami Coyne; Kennedy beloved Bishop. Contact: June you have a winter address please part in Baraga’s story. As someone who enjoys learn - his fellow Dominican, Bishop Fenwick, who was also DeFrancesco; Julia Deiro; Joshua Burich, 243 Pewabic St, Laurium, let us know so we can ensure you ing more and more about Baraga, I can offer a little list Baraga’s bishop, and who loved the Indians “above all Goriesky; Jacob Goriesky; Toni MI 49913-0735. receive your newsletters. of people like that, and I think they add just a little bit others”. Goriesky; Claire Hallowell; Grace to Baraga lore. Fenwick ordained Mazzuchelli in September, 1830 Hallowell; Luke Hallowell; Calli Crypt Mass When he was just a seminarian in Europe, young and the next month assigned him to Mackinac. When THE BBA OFFICE John Nepumocene Neumann, (1811-1860) now Saint Baraga settled in Arbre Croche not long after, the two Janek; Camden Janik; Ty Janik; Crypt Mass will be held at WILL BE CLOSED Autumn Paulsen; Lauren Peters; 12:10pm on the following John Neumann, learned of mission activities that priests were less than a hundred miles apart and in win - Dayne Pini; Ryan Pond; Kurtis Mondays: JUNE 17TH-JUNE 28TH. Baraga was conducting in America because the tertime for a year or two they were able to snowshoe Provost; Kyle Provost; Wyatt August 19th I will be returning to Honduras Leopoldine Society in Europe had publicized them. that long way and serve as each other’s confessor and Provost; Sammy Schierschmidt; September 16th for a second mission trip. Please The society had been a major source of financial sup - spiritual director. Jillian Schramm; Ariana Valle; October 21st pray for safe travels and fruitful port for Baraga’s missionary work. So his example was Baraga was serving among the Ottawa and would Michael Walker; Alyssa Webber; work for us. one of the catalysts for Neumann’s coming to America be missionary to the Ojibwa as well. Fenwick Any phone messages or emails for the same purpose. Subsequently he was ordained assigned Mazzuchelli to work with the Winnebago and THE BISHOP BARAGA ASSOCNIATION received at the Association during in this country, eventually became a member of the Menominee tribes. That work among those tribes grad - this time will be answered when I Redemptorist order, became bishop of Philadelphia ually took him down toward Green Bay on Lake IS OFFERING A NEW SERVICE. and in 1977 was canonized a saint. Michigan and south and west into Wisconsin near the You can receive your Baraga Bulletin electronically now. If you return to the office on Tuesday July 2nd. The Redemptorists, incidentally, had played a role Mississippi River, close to Illinois, to Sinsinawa and are interested in receiving an email copy of the Bulletin instead of a in Baraga’s early years when Father Clement HofBauer, Benton, near Dubuque. printed copy, please complete the form below. Please print carefully Thank you for your understand - ing. now Saint Clement HofBauer, one of Baraga’s mentors Like Baraga he moved about by canoe or snow - so we can enter your email address correctly. We will begin this serv - became a member of the order. And Redemptorist shoes among his native people and saw his region God Bless, ice with the next Bulletin. priests helped staff the northern Lower Michigan mis - increasingly dominated by a mining culture. Baraga Len McKeen sions when Father Baraga moved to the Chippewa mis - had considerable skills as a carpenter and personally Name : sion field at LaPointe……on Lake Superior and then worked on details for his churches, like making the Congratulations to Sacred became the bishop of both the Lake Superior missions Stations of the Cross. Mazzuchelli had similar talents Heart Parish in Munising, MI. Email: and those in northern Lower Michigan. and actually served as his own architect for some of his They are the winners of our Baraga was welcomed for mission work in this churches and even for other buildings. One tiny Diocesan membership drive. country by pioneer Bishop Edward Fenwick of Mazzuchelli church remains intact, unpainted and Address: They had the most new mem - Cincinnati (1768-1832), who even went to the trouble shuttered except for one “reunion” Sunday in the fall bers in Jan. & Feb. For their of accompanying Baraga, by stage, to his initial mission when it is reopened for a single mass, at New Diggings, efforts, they have been awarded a assignment in northern Michigan personally by stage. Wisconsin. Baraga gift basket full of goodies to The dedicated and valiant Fenwick made Episcopal vis - After coming down with pneumonia as the result of Phone #: share with their parishioners. its to his sprawling network each year, as Baraga was a sick call, Mazzuchelli died Feb. 23, 1864. Like our Thank you for promoting God’s wont to do. On a visitation in 1832, Fenwick was sud - Bishop Baraga, Mazzuchelli (1806-1864) has been the Please send my Baraga Bulletin to me via email instead of Faithful Servant, Venerable denly stricken with cholera while far away from home subject of a Cause working for his sainthood, and like mailing me a printed copy. Frederic Baraga and for supporting and had to abandon the stage and very shortly died, Baraga, he has been declared Venerable. Amazing! the Association. almost alone at Wooster, Ohio. Later his remains were Two fellow spiritual directors of each other united today 4 - The Baraga Bulletin — Spring 2013 Spring 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 13 in movements toward beatification! same courtesy. In 1843 the new diocese of Milwaukee was estab - The last fascinating association or connection that I Association News lished and a priest from the diocese of Cincinnati, John have discovered and that has always especially pleased Martin Henni (Baraga’s junior: 1805-1881) was conse - me draws together two bishops whom I consider very PRAYER REQUESTS Thomas Schapman; Pauline Michael Mozil; Mrs. Ann Nemec; crated the next year. That same year he set out to visit special, one of course being Baraga. To tie them Mr. & Mrs. Rudolph Lukez for spe - Scharres; Rev. Paul Schiska; Maria Mrs. Karen Nemec; Mr. & Mrs. Baraga whose mission at LaPointe was in Henni’s juris - together, though, will take some circuitous explaining. cial intentions; Mrs. Aldo Sossi; Arthur Stancher; John Louis Novak; Zdravko & Andrea diction; Baraga was moving back and forth between I hope you’ll follow along! Pedranzan for prayers answered; Swantek; Carmen Taylor; Timothy Novak; Miss Sonia Omahen; Mr. there and L’Anse, Michigan. At LaPointe he was It was Church policy that from time to time provin - Peggy Susewitz for Gabriel Geych; Thomas; Paul Uimari; Eleanor & Mrs. Jake Opresnik; Mr. & Mrs. Henni’s most distant missionary, the only priest north cial councils be held. These were regional meetings of Zebrowski; Jacob Ziminski; James Florian Osredkar; Mrs. Eleanor of a line between Green Bay and Prairie du Chen in the bishops in a certain jurisdiction, like that of the diocese IN THANKSGIVING Ziminski Pavsek; Mr. & Mrs. Aldo southwest corner of Wisconsin. or archdiocese of Cincinnati. In addition, less fre - St. Peter Cathedral in honor of Pedranzan; Lawrence Penko; One mark of our subject individuals here seems to quently, Plenary or national councils were also to be Archbishop Alexander K. Sample; SUPPORT FROM INDIVIDUALS Veronica Petric; Ms. Jackie Pular; have been arduous journeying, and that was the case held. The Civil War had helped to delay the Plenary Mr. & Mrs. Drago Androjna; Mrs. Mrs. Katherine Pyykkonen; Mr. & for Henni here. The determined Henni took a conven - Council that Bishop Baraga was to attend, the Second, IN MEMORY Louis Bajc; Ann Carpenter; Mrs. Mrs. Lawrence Rozman; Mrs. tional steamer to Mackinac and had to engage a canoe in Baltimore, till 1866, and by that time his health was Bozidar Berginc by Thomas & Joan Miro Celestina; Mrs. Mary Cendol; Steve Sasa; Mrs. Olga Seday; Ms. and pair of Indians to paddle him all the way to Sault failing and he faced a long trip by rail; he took with him Lancour; In memory of Dorothy Mrs. Anges Cerer; Fr. Richard Dorothy Sega; Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Ste. Marie. From there he was able to arrange passage as his theologian one of his young priests, Honoratus Urbancich by Mr. & Mrs. James Cerpich; Mr. & Mrs. Christian Sezun; Mr. & Mrs. Henry Skarbez; on a fur company’s trading sailing vessel, the John Bourion. Debevec; In memory of Sister Chermely; Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Mary Skubitz; Mr. & Mrs. James Jacob Astor , as it delivered wholesale supplies to the During the meetings Baraga had a stroke and on his Mary Seraphine Balwinski by Clack; Mrs. Raymond Cowman; Slapnik; Mrs. Nick Sovich; Mrs. company’s warehouse at LaPointe. He had only as tumble down the stairs at the archbishop’s residence Joseph Balwinski Mr. Herman Doerfer; Mr. & Mrs. Lillian Starck; Mrs. Cyril Stepec; much time to meet Baraga, preach to his flock and con - his pectoral cross pierced his chest, causing bleeding Michael Dolinar; Mrs. Alojz Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Stepec; Mr. & firm them, with Baraga translating Henni’s words into which probably saved his life, he was hospitalized in CHAPEL PROJECT Draginc; Mr. & Mrs. James Mrs. Ivan Tomc; Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Ojibwa (Chippewa), as it took the trading company’s grave condition while his assembled confreres worried Diocese of Green Bay; Diocese of Drobnick; Anna Marie Ellenberger; Tomc; Mary Tominc; Mr. & Mrs. employees to unload the trade goods from the Astor about him and the possibility of a successor for his dio - Lansing; Diocesan Council of Mr. & Mrs. Felix Gaser; Miss Marie Victor Tominec; Deborah Uren; and reload her with dried fish and a few furs from the cese, while he lay in the hospital worrying how to Marquette – Society of St. Vincent Giuffre; Mrs. Helen Gorshe; Mrs. Deacon Lewis Vailliencourt; Mrs. warehouse at LaPointe. The time was Assumption Day, escape back to his diocese, for fear that the bishops at de Paul; KSKJ Life! American Cirila Grajciar; Dorothy Griff; Gregory Vasle: Mr. & Mrs. Anton and after barely a day with Baraga, Henni was off again the sessions would lean on him to retire to the relative Slovenian Catholic Union; St. Peter Judith Grozdanik; Mr. & Mrs. Ivan Vegel; Mrs. Marija Wurzer; Mr. & to retrace his trip southward. The Astor ran a regular ease and comfort of Baltimore in contrast to the harsh Cathedral; Hauptman; Mr. & Mrs. John Mrs. Ronald Zagar; Mr. & Mrs. cycle of trips between its owner’s warehouses at the life at Marquette. Surreptitiously he and Bourion stole Hozjan, Sr.; Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Karl Zajec; Mrs. Julie Zalar; Paul Sault’s portage and LaPointe, accepting travelers like off to the railroad station and boarded a train for home. Mark A. Aho; Cecelia Atanasoff; Hozjan; Mrs. Ignac Hozjan; Marija Zimperman; Mr. Frank Zupancic; Henni, but on such a cycle just a few round trips later, Bourion had to carry the frail bishop physically wher - James Anderson; John & Mary Jane Hutchinson; Mrs. Vida Jakomin; Mrs. Lawrence Zupancic; the Astor was wrecked at the lonely port of Copper ever they had to change cars. They did make it home Beaumier; Pauline Berry, Msgr. Mr. Michael Janesch; Mrs. Harbor on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Providence had and though his health continued to ebb, Baraga lived Ron Browne; Donna Christy; Joyce Katherina Jereb; Miss Beatrice GROUP DONATIONS been with Henni: had he been on that round trip he on until January, 1868. Marquette, with no railroad Dupras; Richard Elsey; Denise Jerkich; Mrs. Josephine Kastigar; Fanny Pung Charitable Trust; St. would have been stranded there at Copper Harbor and connection and with the lake frozen solid, was so com - Foye; Bishop James Garland; Mr. & Mrs. Just Knez; Mr. & Mrs. Mary of the Assumption Catholic would have been hard pressed to find any other way of pletely locked in snow that no bishop could even reach Kathleen Gobert; Helena Gorshe; Rudy Knez; Rudy Knez, Fr.; Mrs. Church Cleveland, OH; getting back to Milwaukee, especially in late fall. Marquette to bury him. Rev. Joseph Gouin; William Rose Kocin; Mr. & Mrs. Greg On a later occasion, in March 1853, Baraga paid a Many Baraga Association members have doubtless Gregory; J. M. Guenther; John Kozar; Mrs. Frances Krall; Mr. NEW BISHOP return visit to Henni in his see city for a few days in read a novel that gives a profound portrayal of the life Fabian; Martin R. Flynn; Jude Andrew Kristan; Mrs. Milka Krulc; BARAGA MEMBERS Milwaukee. Suggestions that Baraga would soon be of a bishop of Baraga’s time—though in a completely Howard; Sister Joann Jauquet; Rev. John Kumse; Mary Lacijan; Joan Antila; Yvonne Arnold; named bishop of a new vicariate apostolic in Upper different setting, New Mexico—if they have read the Scott Jamison; Colleen Juidici; Mrs. Victor Lamovec; John & Maryann Arrieri; Kathleen Michigan were in the air, and when it became a reali - stunning novel by Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Robert Jurkovich; Diane Kut; Rachel Lamovec; Mrs. Maria Danielson; Fred & Cathy Dittrich; ty, Henni was a co-consecrator at Baraga’s consecra - Archbishop , which focuses on, as its main character, a Henry Maibusch; Robert Kenneth Lavrisha; Brni Lavrisha; Mrs. Andrew Ehlinger; Larry & tion. On Henni’s behalf, the new vicar/bishop took bishop named Latour, an immigrant from France Marquardt; Emmett Norden; Rev. Anthony Luzar; Mr. & Mrs. Stefan Michalene Elzerman; Henrietta over the Episcopal responsibilities for his former mis - assigned to establish the diocese of Santa Fe. A more Allan Mayotte; James Menapace; Majc; Mary Lacijan; Mr. Dusan Englund; Marvin & Lois Gibson; sions in Henni’s diocese because he had the language recent Pulitzer Prize winning writer has done a biogra - Glen Morgan; George Peterson; Marsic; Mr. & Mrs. Martin Marsic; Mrs. Patricia Gibson; Donald skills and practical experience that had made adminis - phy of the real life bishop whom Cather fictionalizes Anthony Rebol; Dawn Ringsmith; Mr. James Meinke; Mrs. Josephine Henderson; Joanne Johnson; The tering them much easier on his part than it would have and it is amazing to see how closely she hewed to the Msgr. AJ Rezek; Geraldine Merhar; Ana Mihelich; Mr. Joseph Kekko Family; Donald Maladecki; been for Henni in far off Milwaukee. For the bishops details of the man’s life, in her exquisite novel. Robarge; M. Jean Rochefort; Mihelich; Ms. Arlene Mole; Mr. & Frances Mathews; Catherine of Detroit and Hamilton, Ontario, he exercised the It was customer after a plenary council such as the Archbishop Alexander K. Sample; Mrs. Anton Moze Jr.; Mr. & Mrs. Moffat; Robert & Barbie Nebel; 12 - The Baraga Bulletin — Spring 2013 Spring 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 5 because of the numerous canoe and dogsled travels he It prescribed, became the lodestar of his life. What 1866 meeting in Baltimore for a report on the meetings Baptiste Lamy, of Sante Fe (1814-1888). had made in previous years over the same routes. mattered it to him if he had to undertake a journey of to be taken personally by one of the participants to the For me, who have taught and loved that novel, it is Arrived at L’Anse, still another flame in his heart 350 miles in October, 1847, from Copper Harbor, Vatican, and the bishops had chosen as the man to wonderful to know that the character who inspired it rose up to consume it. Indeed it was the Flame of Michigan to Fond du Lac, Minnesota, as long as there carry the report of their proceedings the same bishop and shaped it was another one of Frederic Baraga’s Flames. Here at L’Anse he began the practice of rising were some newly converted Indians to instruct? What whom Cather’s novel thinly fictionalizes. In this case associations or connections. each day at 3:00am in winter to pray and meditate for mattered it to him if while returning in the following the report included the anxious deliberations about (Binding him and Baraga are some common hard - what to do in the case of the Marquette diocese and one, two, and even three hours without interruption... January, his guide is taken sick and he himself had to ships that each bishop faced. Like Baraga, Lamy used Baraga’s hope for relief in the form of a coadjutor, but Here was the source of the fire that burned in Baraga’s take care of the stricken man, and even carry the sick his long stay in Europe to raise funds and recruit semi - the information generated during the council was heart, and made him not merely to submit to hard - man’s pack in addition to his own, through the snow, canonically insufficient for a decision according to narians, priests and nuns in his native France for his ships, but to thank God for sending them to him. From as long as Christ was being preached? That was his diocese. If Baraga’s travel around his diocese and the L’Anse in 1844 he wrote: “L’Anse is an unpleasant, church protocol, and so he did not get the relief he work, the work that Almighty God had given him to Great Lakes were challenging, Lamy’s return trip from sad, sterile place, in no comparison with La Pointe… would have liked. do. He had given his will to God, and with God’s France was positively harrowing. When he and his lit - O, how I thank my God for calling me to the labori - The part of the story that completes it, the connec - help, he would not and did not take it back. tle traveling party had reached this country and arrived ous, indeed, but at the same time, highly consoling tion, is the identity of the churchman whom the bish - Thus, he surrendered to God in complete service at St. Louis, he had to organize and finance a wagon missionary state!” God had placed the fire in Baraga’s ops had delegated to report to Rome, that December of heart, and Baraga had bid it welcome and given it the inner faculties of mind, heart, and will. But, after 1866. 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BishBopa Braragga aDa yDs wailyl bse cSelcebhraetedd uthilse y eoar fin EDuvluethn, Mts N on The Afolldowvinegn extcuerrptes rar ef toakren Jfroems uFresd eCrickh Brairasgt a, Adventurer for Jesus Christ Saturday, October 5th & Sunday, October 6th. We look forward to having you join us. by Most Rev. Francis J. Haas, D.D. Bishop of Grand Rapids, MI The understanding of sanctity gives us a key to an printed page. But giving HIS mind to God was only SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5TH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6TH appreciation of the career of Frederick Baraga. He part of his task. The remainder was no less burden - ______aimed to keep his whole being – his mind, his heart, some. It was: how can I induce the Indian to sur - 6:00 PM Slovenian Mass 10:30 AM English Mass his will, and his body – free from defilement, and at render HIS mind to God. Thus we can understand Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary the same time committed to God. 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Please make your reservation by September 15th (earlier if possible). standards, the mind that he had was a valuable mind, But consider the different flames that leaped up of a refinement that the world prizes. Did he not have from the heart of Baraga. There was, at the outset, the more than average talents for painting and for making flame of the confessor, In his MEMOIRS , Father lovely verses? Had he not been trained as a child by Samuel Mazzuchelli in 1843 calls Baraga his “spiritu - Name/s:______private tutors? Did he not have command of some six al director” and tells of his own canoe journey in the or seven modern languages, and did he not have the early thirties along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan Address:______advantage of having had training in Civil Law at the from the Sault to Harbor Springs to receive sacramen - University of Vienna? tal absolution from Baraga as well as to impart it. As Saturday Meal: ______@ $25.00 per person = $______It is an outstanding fact that by 1832 while still at might be expected, there was the heart flame in Arbre Croche, he had ready for the printer a manu - Baraga that ignited the affections of the Ottawas Sunday Meal: ______@ $15.00 per person = $______script for a prayerbook and a catechism in the Ottawa toward him when he was laboring among them in language. In that year at Detroit he used the sum of Grand River, near present-day Grand Rapids, from Please make checks payable to Bishop Baraga Association. $212, which Bishop Fenwick of Cincinnati had given 1833 to 1835… While here, his heart was burning for Meal tickets will be sent to you prior to the event. him, to defray the cost of printing 1,000 copies of the his Indians. In a letter dated March 13, 1835, he If you are with a bus group your coordinator will prayer book and catechism. wrote: “I am longing for the moment of my departure receive tickets at the Hotel. But this was only 1832. He went on producing for Lake Superior. Many, I hope, will be converted to other works, and at L’Anse from 1843-1851 he was the religion of Christ, and find in it their eternal Send to: Bishop Baraga Association 1004 Harbor Hills Dr., Marquette, MI 49855 busy on the preparation of a dictionary and a grammar reward.” In early spring he sailed up Lake Huron, and of the Chippewa language, the first a volume of 576 passing through the Sault, arrived at La Pointe. pages, and the second of 662 pages. These activities After he had begun work at La Pointe, still another were not inspired by any desire for literary applause, flame was devouring his heart. It was, so to speak, a May 24 - “Happy are we that He needs not the expression of words. He sees our hearts. but rather by the single purpose of helping new mis - divided flame, one portion urging him on to other sionary priests among the red men to acquire the fields for other work, the other holding him back for This little church is built but of logs and bark and is in want of all that can please the eye; Chippewa language without unnecessary delay… work still undone. Nevertheless, after some eight yet it appears to me to be a more precious temple than so many churches in Europe.” It is scarcely necessary to go on. While tramping years of labor at La Pointe, and after being assured that through uncut forests on snowshoes to bring the a qualified priest would be sent to take his place, the Sacraments of Baptism and Penance perhaps to some flame to move overpowered him, and on to L’Anse he ~ Fr. Baraga, Indian Lake dying Indian, he was busying himself with plans to moved. The journey was a distance of some 180 give his mind more completely to God through the miles with which, however, he was not unacquainted 10 - The Baraga Bulletin — Spring 2013 Spring 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 7 another trip for the same purpose on September 7, plowed snow and ran all year. It was Baraga’s aware - 1860, but his diary is vague about other trips and ceas - ness of that progress, and his experience of being Travel By Train es coverage as of July, 1863. imprisoned in the Sault all winter that led him to tell the By Michael J. Dunn He had just returned to Marquette from the Vatican that Marquette would offer much better access A favorite way that many people have to refer to but put no details in his diary besides grousing that Keweenaw aboard the LADY ELGIN three days before than the Sault and would be a better see city of his dio - Venerable Frederic Baraga is the colorful and unusual early in his travels, train or station crews in Belgium lost and the graceful steamer was probably still churning cese, and he achieved his wish in 1866. title of the “Snowshoe Priest”. his luggage. down on Lake Michigan to her rendezvous with des - That year, 1866, would be a significant but dis - As we learn more and more about this favorite Mostly he made a number of trips from northern tiny. He went up to Pioneer again on September 10, tressing year for the bishop. His health was now begin - priest and bishop, we may come to realize that the Michigan to Cincinnati, Ohio, first to see his Chippewa but he did not state in the diary whether he took the ning to fail and in fall he faced a long, arduous train trip mention of snowshoes is too limiting to describe the Dictionary set into print and then several times for train. and exhausting proceedings at the Second Plenary whole spectrum of ways that Venerable Frederic Baraga councils or official gatherings of the bishops of the Not during Baraga’s lifetime and not before 1871- Council at Baltimore. He made the trip via Chicago managed to get around, especially after he became Cincinnati Province. 72 was there through rail trackage between the eastern with the assistance of one of his young priests, responsible as a bishop for a five hundred mile string of And finally he had the chances to undertake train trav - UP and Wisconsin and on to Chicago), but during Honoratus Bourion, but he had a serious stroke and missions and shouldered Episcopal obligations that el right in Upper Michigan after the first iron rails were 1863 and 1864 railroad investors from Chicago built was hospitalized in grave condition. The matter of a sometimes took him far from his missionary diocese. laid out of Marquette. The 115 mile gap without rail the Peninsula Railroad from Escanaba to the iron range successor to him had been part of the bishops’ deliber - As a result, trains became very important servants of tracks north of Green Bay prevented him from ever near Negaunee and Ishpeming. They made it part of ations and he lay in his hospital bed in fear that in their the not-only-just-snowshoeing-any-more bishop. making a direct railroad trip out of the Upper the Chicago and North Western system, already oper - solicitude, they might lean on him to retire then and Our best source for Peninsula. Any long ating up as far as Green Bay. There still remained a remain in the more salubrious setting of Baltimore. many details about trip from the UP had to 115 mile gap, however, between the Escanaba and With that in mind, he and Bourion quickly left the city Baraga is the diary that begin with a steamboat Green Bay terminal, and the C&NW filled that with on the train, he was so weak that Bourion had to carry he kept from 1852- trip or a stage trip if one steamboats in the summer and stages in the winter. It the light, frail bishop when they changed trains. 1863. In the case of his wanted to travel south was constructing the rail line across that gap when the Fittingly it was a train back close to home that was traveling, though, via Green Bay. sometimes he notes What was notorious Peshtigo Fire and Chicago Fire occurred on a figure in Baraga’s last public appearance. It took specifically that he arguably Father the same day, and the intense flames at Peshtigo place when he was ordinarily housebound, and he warped the rails that the workers had just laid on the made such and such a Baraga’s first train trip, rode the little train up to Negaunee; the church there trip by train, but other or first very important new right of way. was finally becoming a reality and he went up to bless The Peninsula/C&NW line met the Bar de times, especially early train trip, began with the work on it on November 10, 1867. Eight weeks Nocquette [sic] & Marquette near Negaunee but they in his keeping the diary the mishap that has later he was gone, and Marquette was so locked in ice could not safely operate trains on each other’s tracks when the suggestions been so often retold in because they had a gauge difference which, though and snow and the gap so insurmountable to Green Bay first came about that he the Baraga story. With slight, meant a risk of derailments. Passengers though that no bishop could reach Marquette to preside over a was likely to be made a the precious manuscript could walk from one train to the other. The little line fitting farewell. bishop over his mis - of his massive shut down with freeze up and the end of lake shipping It was a case of the train being late, not by minutes sions, he only mentions Chippewa language each November or December but the larger road or hours, but by years. going to a certain place dictionary hugged but does not tell how. closely to his body, he With the help of books was heading by sleigh on railroad history, upon frozen Lake though, we can confirm Michigan on March 9, some of that traveling 1853 about nine miles came by rail. from Green Bay when the sleigh carrying Baraga and The definite train riding that Baraga did occurred some others behind a team of horses or ponies sud - mostly after 1853. That included two long trips to the denly broke through the ice. Despite the soaking that East, New York and Baltimore thirteen years apart in most of the occupants received, the manuscript 1853 and 1866. He made the long trip from Michigan escaped a soaking. or Ohio to New York in the Fall, 1853, after his conse - Over the next day or so Baraga reached cration as bishop, to begin his trip to Europe. He made Milwaukee; the rail line to Chicago with its branch a trip almost as long by rail in 1866 to participate in the connection to Milwaukee would have made that possi - Second Plenary Council in Baltimore. ble. There he stayed about five days as a guest of He traveled by train in Europe on his 1853-54 trip Bishop Henni, from March 11, and then headed to 8 - The Baraga Bulletin — Spring 2013 Spring 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 9 Detroit on railroad lines that had been completed only coal or wood stoves a little heat - -or too much, for peo - tourist than a church official. The bridge, he wrote, entrepreneurs tried building a plank road to bring down in 1851 and 1852, arriving on March 17. There he ple sitting close by. There was a supply of water and was “stupendous” and was so “solid that the heaviest ore to the docks at Marquette, and then a strap iron found out that the little printshops in Detroit were inca - rudimentary toilet. train runs over it in safety”. railroad (but the carts or little rail cars loaded with ore pable of tackling his Chippewa language book-sized The small steam locomotives rode on four wheels What seems so special – for us in hindsight in 2013 tended to run over the mules that hauled them, at least printing job, he feared he’d have to take it to New York per side, two small pilot wheels at the front and two – is that the bridge beautifully foreshadowed the mod - on the loaded down bound trip). So finally a real rail - but then found that printers in Cincinnati were capable large driving wheels near the cab. They had slatted ern Mackinac Bridge that is the jewel of northern road with T rails was the answer and in summer, 1855 of setting it into type and printing it. On March 28th cowcatchers at the very front, a round boiler almost the Michigan! It was shorter, less than 900 feet, and the brig COLUMBIA delivered the tiny steam locomo - and 29th he headed to Cincinnati. There he concen - whole length of the engine, a square headlight and tall, crossed a very deep gorge and the churning river still tive SEBASTOPOL. It resembled the steam passenger trated on proofreading the galley sheets of the diction - diamond-shaped smokestack right behind. From the recoiling from the leap down the falls. But it had the engines familiar to Baraga. Tracks were pushed up to ary and did not get away till July 26th. tender or fuel car right behind the engine the fireman same sort of silhouette that its successor of a century Negaunee over the next two years. The first freight The way he reached Cincinnati that time set the pat - kept tossing chunks of wood into the firebox to main - later has: two tall towers, on the stream banks and upbound was firebrick for the furnaces, and then boil - tern for most of his multiple trips there. He went by tain the fire that made the steam. The cadence of the graceful arching cable curving down in an arc before ers and machinery. In June, 1858, the railroad would steamboat from Detroit to Sandusky, where one of cylinders as their steam was exhausted with each rising again, and harplike strands dropping down from get new owners and a new name instead of its Iron Ohio’s very first railroads had been built as a link stroke, made the chuff-chuff sound that led to our word them to hold the deck. It had been competed only in Mountain Railroad name, and pig iron joined the out - between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River, and he choo-choo to designate a train. 1855 and the engineer who designed it was responsi - bound ore. A second locomotive, the DELAWARE, took that train to Cincinnati either directly or with any The railroads were competent at night running, but ble for many subsequent suspension bridges, including joined the SEBASTOPOL. changes between trains made easily. Though he passengers did not have many resources to make night the first bridge across the Ohio River at Cincinnati, built The railroad built shops on the lakeshore where returned on the same route, by the last time he had to travel comfortable—sleeping cars came later. Dining a little too late for Baraga to enjoy it. they could build the wooden four wheel cars for ore go back and forth, a railroad had been completed that cars came later too: the best that a hungry traveler To get the first slim line across the deep gorge he and could service equipment, and a small depot for allowed him to return via Toledo. There he laid could do was to dart into a station restaurant, when a resorted to an ingenious tactic. He attached the light passengers. A running time of one hour and forty five overnight and in the morning was in Detroit within train stopped long enough to grab a bite to eat as the line to a kite and flew it across the gorge, and that minutes allowed the operation of five round trips a day three hours. engine crew serviced the engine with their distinctive enabled the workers to pull stronger lines and eventu - of up to twenty of the tiny ore cars, and on every sec - Railroad transportation in Baraga’s time was com - long-spouted oil cans and filled the tender’s tank with ally the material for the cables across the gorge in the ond trip the train included the line’s only passenger car. plicated because there was so little standardization or water from the huge round wooden tank beside the beginning. As many as 6,000 passengers rode in the years around uniformity. The rail network consisted more of short track. Suspension Bridge marked the international border 1860. railroads that would later be knitted together by con - The Cincinnati trip that was most fascinating among crossing between the US and Canada and a junction On July 21, 1859 Bishop Baraga was one of those solidation, and the separate railroads meant that a long Baraga’s many was a really roundabout journey that he point where the bishop transferred from a Canadian passengers as he “went by rail” the diary says, to make distance traveler many times had to change trains at began February 12, 1858. It was so roundabout that he train to an American one; three railroads converged at arrangements for a church at Negaunee. He made junction points. The railroads also wanted to operate traveled as far as Toledo and Buffalo on his way, and the bridge and because of the different gauges of their on their own time, for no standard time had been estab - his trip was a mix of travel first by sleigh behind dogs tracks, the bridge was laid out with four rails in all, lished. As a station where three may have operated, or horses, mostly in the company of postal carriers, and upon which each gauge fitted—Canada’s gauge was an there would have to be three separate clocks so that then a public stage and finally a succession of trains. astonishing five and a half feet. The tracks were on the travelers could be sure of the time where they would be He boarded his first stage at Penetanguishene at the east upper deck, and beneath it was another deck for pedes - boarding. That parochial attitude also carried over to end of Lake Huron and hoped to transfer to a railroad trians and wagons which also gave it greater rigidity. the gauge the railroads used, the distance between their train at Barrie for the leg to Toronto, but his stage was Over the next two or three days he made his way rails; there were eleven different gauges in use n the US late (he blamed the drivers) and it arrived at Barrie just to Buffalo and Cincinnati, and did some of the travel - in 1860; that way one railroad could not poach the in time to see the train pulling out. He had wanted to ing by night. On that trip he remained in Cincinnati freight traffic of another but a rider could not ride call upon the bishops in Toronto and Buffalo but found several weeks as he worked on proofreading the galley straight through if the differing gauges made through neither at home. In between those two disappoint - sheets that his printer had carefully typeset for him in trains impossible. At one place where Baraga must ments, though, was an event that stands out among all the Chippewa dialect. have had to change trains, Dunkirk, NY, in late 1853 the otherwise laconic entries that he entered in his Back in Upper Michigan the stage had been set dur - on his way to New York and Europe, railroad employ - diary. That was his visit to Suspension Bridge, the sta - ing the latter 1850’s for Bishop Baraga to ride his first ees lost his trunk and he spent five days waiting in tion name for the boarder crossing between Canada trains right in his own diocese. Iron mining had begun Dunkirk for it to turn up. and the United States and for Niagara Falls, which were inland from Marquette near where Negaunee devel - The one thing that was pretty consistent in his time located in the Niagara River Gorge just upstream from oped and the Pioneer charcoal iron furnaces were con - was the character of passenger trains. the bridge that gave the station community its name. structed there. Related facilities had been constructed They were small, compared to today’s trains. He reached the station late in the day and stayed to take up supplies to the mines and furnaces and new Coaches could seat only fifty to sixty and were only overnight to see the falls and the spectacular bridge, settlements and to bring down ore and the pig iron that about fifty feet long. Candles provided a little light and one of the few times when he seemed to be more a the furnaces would begin pouring (in 1858). First the 8 - The Baraga Bulletin — Spring 2013 Spring 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 9 Detroit on railroad lines that had been completed only coal or wood stoves a little heat - -or too much, for peo - tourist than a church official. The bridge, he wrote, entrepreneurs tried building a plank road to bring down in 1851 and 1852, arriving on March 17. There he ple sitting close by. There was a supply of water and was “stupendous” and was so “solid that the heaviest ore to the docks at Marquette, and then a strap iron found out that the little printshops in Detroit were inca - rudimentary toilet. train runs over it in safety”. railroad (but the carts or little rail cars loaded with ore pable of tackling his Chippewa language book-sized The small steam locomotives rode on four wheels What seems so special – for us in hindsight in 2013 tended to run over the mules that hauled them, at least printing job, he feared he’d have to take it to New York per side, two small pilot wheels at the front and two – is that the bridge beautifully foreshadowed the mod - on the loaded down bound trip). So finally a real rail - but then found that printers in Cincinnati were capable large driving wheels near the cab. They had slatted ern Mackinac Bridge that is the jewel of northern road with T rails was the answer and in summer, 1855 of setting it into type and printing it. On March 28th cowcatchers at the very front, a round boiler almost the Michigan! It was shorter, less than 900 feet, and the brig COLUMBIA delivered the tiny steam locomo - and 29th he headed to Cincinnati. There he concen - whole length of the engine, a square headlight and tall, crossed a very deep gorge and the churning river still tive SEBASTOPOL. It resembled the steam passenger trated on proofreading the galley sheets of the diction - diamond-shaped smokestack right behind. From the recoiling from the leap down the falls. But it had the engines familiar to Baraga. Tracks were pushed up to ary and did not get away till July 26th. tender or fuel car right behind the engine the fireman same sort of silhouette that its successor of a century Negaunee over the next two years. The first freight The way he reached Cincinnati that time set the pat - kept tossing chunks of wood into the firebox to main - later has: two tall towers, on the stream banks and upbound was firebrick for the furnaces, and then boil - tern for most of his multiple trips there. He went by tain the fire that made the steam. The cadence of the graceful arching cable curving down in an arc before ers and machinery. In June, 1858, the railroad would steamboat from Detroit to Sandusky, where one of cylinders as their steam was exhausted with each rising again, and harplike strands dropping down from get new owners and a new name instead of its Iron Ohio’s very first railroads had been built as a link stroke, made the chuff-chuff sound that led to our word them to hold the deck. It had been competed only in Mountain Railroad name, and pig iron joined the out - between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River, and he choo-choo to designate a train. 1855 and the engineer who designed it was responsi - bound ore. A second locomotive, the DELAWARE, took that train to Cincinnati either directly or with any The railroads were competent at night running, but ble for many subsequent suspension bridges, including joined the SEBASTOPOL. changes between trains made easily. Though he passengers did not have many resources to make night the first bridge across the Ohio River at Cincinnati, built The railroad built shops on the lakeshore where returned on the same route, by the last time he had to travel comfortable—sleeping cars came later. Dining a little too late for Baraga to enjoy it. they could build the wooden four wheel cars for ore go back and forth, a railroad had been completed that cars came later too: the best that a hungry traveler To get the first slim line across the deep gorge he and could service equipment, and a small depot for allowed him to return via Toledo. There he laid could do was to dart into a station restaurant, when a resorted to an ingenious tactic. He attached the light passengers. A running time of one hour and forty five overnight and in the morning was in Detroit within train stopped long enough to grab a bite to eat as the line to a kite and flew it across the gorge, and that minutes allowed the operation of five round trips a day three hours. engine crew serviced the engine with their distinctive enabled the workers to pull stronger lines and eventu - of up to twenty of the tiny ore cars, and on every sec - Railroad transportation in Baraga’s time was com - long-spouted oil cans and filled the tender’s tank with ally the material for the cables across the gorge in the ond trip the train included the line’s only passenger car. plicated because there was so little standardization or water from the huge round wooden tank beside the beginning. As many as 6,000 passengers rode in the years around uniformity. The rail network consisted more of short track. Suspension Bridge marked the international border 1860. railroads that would later be knitted together by con - The Cincinnati trip that was most fascinating among crossing between the US and Canada and a junction On July 21, 1859 Bishop Baraga was one of those solidation, and the separate railroads meant that a long Baraga’s many was a really roundabout journey that he point where the bishop transferred from a Canadian passengers as he “went by rail” the diary says, to make distance traveler many times had to change trains at began February 12, 1858. It was so roundabout that he train to an American one; three railroads converged at arrangements for a church at Negaunee. He made junction points. The railroads also wanted to operate traveled as far as Toledo and Buffalo on his way, and the bridge and because of the different gauges of their on their own time, for no standard time had been estab - his trip was a mix of travel first by sleigh behind dogs tracks, the bridge was laid out with four rails in all, lished. As a station where three may have operated, or horses, mostly in the company of postal carriers, and upon which each gauge fitted—Canada’s gauge was an there would have to be three separate clocks so that then a public stage and finally a succession of trains. astonishing five and a half feet. The tracks were on the travelers could be sure of the time where they would be He boarded his first stage at Penetanguishene at the east upper deck, and beneath it was another deck for pedes - boarding. That parochial attitude also carried over to end of Lake Huron and hoped to transfer to a railroad trians and wagons which also gave it greater rigidity. the gauge the railroads used, the distance between their train at Barrie for the leg to Toronto, but his stage was Over the next two or three days he made his way rails; there were eleven different gauges in use n the US late (he blamed the drivers) and it arrived at Barrie just to Buffalo and Cincinnati, and did some of the travel - in 1860; that way one railroad could not poach the in time to see the train pulling out. He had wanted to ing by night. On that trip he remained in Cincinnati freight traffic of another but a rider could not ride call upon the bishops in Toronto and Buffalo but found several weeks as he worked on proofreading the galley straight through if the differing gauges made through neither at home. In between those two disappoint - sheets that his printer had carefully typeset for him in trains impossible. At one place where Baraga must ments, though, was an event that stands out among all the Chippewa dialect. have had to change trains, Dunkirk, NY, in late 1853 the otherwise laconic entries that he entered in his Back in Upper Michigan the stage had been set dur - on his way to New York and Europe, railroad employ - diary. That was his visit to Suspension Bridge, the sta - ing the latter 1850’s for Bishop Baraga to ride his first ees lost his trunk and he spent five days waiting in tion name for the boarder crossing between Canada trains right in his own diocese. Iron mining had begun Dunkirk for it to turn up. and the United States and for Niagara Falls, which were inland from Marquette near where Negaunee devel - The one thing that was pretty consistent in his time located in the Niagara River Gorge just upstream from oped and the Pioneer charcoal iron furnaces were con - was the character of passenger trains. the bridge that gave the station community its name. structed there. Related facilities had been constructed They were small, compared to today’s trains. He reached the station late in the day and stayed to take up supplies to the mines and furnaces and new Coaches could seat only fifty to sixty and were only overnight to see the falls and the spectacular bridge, settlements and to bring down ore and the pig iron that about fifty feet long. Candles provided a little light and one of the few times when he seemed to be more a the furnaces would begin pouring (in 1858). First the 10 - The Baraga Bulletin — Spring 2013 Spring 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 7 another trip for the same purpose on September 7, plowed snow and ran all year. It was Baraga’s aware - 1860, but his diary is vague about other trips and ceas - ness of that progress, and his experience of being Travel By Train es coverage as of July, 1863. imprisoned in the Sault all winter that led him to tell the By Michael J. Dunn He had just returned to Marquette from the Vatican that Marquette would offer much better access A favorite way that many people have to refer to but put no details in his diary besides grousing that Keweenaw aboard the LADY ELGIN three days before than the Sault and would be a better see city of his dio - Venerable Frederic Baraga is the colorful and unusual early in his travels, train or station crews in Belgium lost and the graceful steamer was probably still churning cese, and he achieved his wish in 1866. title of the “Snowshoe Priest”. his luggage. down on Lake Michigan to her rendezvous with des - That year, 1866, would be a significant but dis - As we learn more and more about this favorite Mostly he made a number of trips from northern tiny. He went up to Pioneer again on September 10, tressing year for the bishop. His health was now begin - priest and bishop, we may come to realize that the Michigan to Cincinnati, Ohio, first to see his Chippewa but he did not state in the diary whether he took the ning to fail and in fall he faced a long, arduous train trip mention of snowshoes is too limiting to describe the Dictionary set into print and then several times for train. and exhausting proceedings at the Second Plenary whole spectrum of ways that Venerable Frederic Baraga councils or official gatherings of the bishops of the Not during Baraga’s lifetime and not before 1871- Council at Baltimore. He made the trip via Chicago managed to get around, especially after he became Cincinnati Province. 72 was there through rail trackage between the eastern with the assistance of one of his young priests, responsible as a bishop for a five hundred mile string of And finally he had the chances to undertake train trav - UP and Wisconsin and on to Chicago), but during Honoratus Bourion, but he had a serious stroke and missions and shouldered Episcopal obligations that el right in Upper Michigan after the first iron rails were 1863 and 1864 railroad investors from Chicago built was hospitalized in grave condition. The matter of a sometimes took him far from his missionary diocese. laid out of Marquette. The 115 mile gap without rail the Peninsula Railroad from Escanaba to the iron range successor to him had been part of the bishops’ deliber - As a result, trains became very important servants of tracks north of Green Bay prevented him from ever near Negaunee and Ishpeming. They made it part of ations and he lay in his hospital bed in fear that in their the not-only-just-snowshoeing-any-more bishop. making a direct railroad trip out of the Upper the Chicago and North Western system, already oper - solicitude, they might lean on him to retire then and Our best source for Peninsula. Any long ating up as far as Green Bay. There still remained a remain in the more salubrious setting of Baltimore. many details about trip from the UP had to 115 mile gap, however, between the Escanaba and With that in mind, he and Bourion quickly left the city Baraga is the diary that begin with a steamboat Green Bay terminal, and the C&NW filled that with on the train, he was so weak that Bourion had to carry he kept from 1852- trip or a stage trip if one steamboats in the summer and stages in the winter. It the light, frail bishop when they changed trains. 1863. In the case of his wanted to travel south was constructing the rail line across that gap when the Fittingly it was a train back close to home that was traveling, though, via Green Bay. sometimes he notes What was notorious Peshtigo Fire and Chicago Fire occurred on a figure in Baraga’s last public appearance. It took specifically that he arguably Father the same day, and the intense flames at Peshtigo place when he was ordinarily housebound, and he warped the rails that the workers had just laid on the made such and such a Baraga’s first train trip, rode the little train up to Negaunee; the church there trip by train, but other or first very important new right of way. was finally becoming a reality and he went up to bless The Peninsula/C&NW line met the Bar de times, especially early train trip, began with the work on it on November 10, 1867. Eight weeks Nocquette [sic] & Marquette near Negaunee but they in his keeping the diary the mishap that has later he was gone, and Marquette was so locked in ice could not safely operate trains on each other’s tracks when the suggestions been so often retold in because they had a gauge difference which, though and snow and the gap so insurmountable to Green Bay first came about that he the Baraga story. With slight, meant a risk of derailments. Passengers though that no bishop could reach Marquette to preside over a was likely to be made a the precious manuscript could walk from one train to the other. The little line fitting farewell. bishop over his mis - of his massive shut down with freeze up and the end of lake shipping It was a case of the train being late, not by minutes sions, he only mentions Chippewa language each November or December but the larger road or hours, but by years. going to a certain place dictionary hugged but does not tell how. closely to his body, he With the help of books was heading by sleigh on railroad history, upon frozen Lake though, we can confirm Michigan on March 9, some of that traveling 1853 about nine miles came by rail. from Green Bay when the sleigh carrying Baraga and The definite train riding that Baraga did occurred some others behind a team of horses or ponies sud - mostly after 1853. That included two long trips to the denly broke through the ice. Despite the soaking that East, New York and Baltimore thirteen years apart in most of the occupants received, the manuscript 1853 and 1866. He made the long trip from Michigan escaped a soaking. or Ohio to New York in the Fall, 1853, after his conse - Over the next day or so Baraga reached cration as bishop, to begin his trip to Europe. He made Milwaukee; the rail line to Chicago with its branch a trip almost as long by rail in 1866 to participate in the connection to Milwaukee would have made that possi - Second Plenary Council in Baltimore. ble. There he stayed about five days as a guest of He traveled by train in Europe on his 1853-54 trip Bishop Henni, from March 11, and then headed to 6 - The Baraga Bulletin — Spring 2013 Spring 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 11

BishBopa Braragga aDa yDs wailyl bse cSelcebhraetedd uthilse y eoar fin EDuvluethn, Mts N on The Afolldowvinegn extcuerrptes rar ef toakren Jfroems uFresd eCrickh Brairasgt a, Adventurer for Jesus Christ Saturday, October 5th & Sunday, October 6th. We look forward to having you join us. by Most Rev. Francis J. Haas, D.D. Bishop of Grand Rapids, MI The understanding of sanctity gives us a key to an printed page. But giving HIS mind to God was only SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5TH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6TH appreciation of the career of Frederick Baraga. He part of his task. The remainder was no less burden - ______aimed to keep his whole being – his mind, his heart, some. It was: how can I induce the Indian to sur - 6:00 PM Slovenian Mass 10:30 AM English Mass his will, and his body – free from defilement, and at render HIS mind to God. Thus we can understand Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary the same time committed to God. 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As Saturday Meal: ______@ $25.00 per person = $______It is an outstanding fact that by 1832 while still at might be expected, there was the heart flame in Arbre Croche, he had ready for the printer a manu - Baraga that ignited the affections of the Ottawas Sunday Meal: ______@ $15.00 per person = $______script for a prayerbook and a catechism in the Ottawa toward him when he was laboring among them in language. In that year at Detroit he used the sum of Grand River, near present-day Grand Rapids, from Please make checks payable to Bishop Baraga Association. $212, which Bishop Fenwick of Cincinnati had given 1833 to 1835… While here, his heart was burning for Meal tickets will be sent to you prior to the event. him, to defray the cost of printing 1,000 copies of the his Indians. In a letter dated March 13, 1835, he If you are with a bus group your coordinator will prayer book and catechism. wrote: “I am longing for the moment of my departure receive tickets at the Hotel. But this was only 1832. He went on producing for Lake Superior. Many, I hope, will be converted to other works, and at L’Anse from 1843-1851 he was the religion of Christ, and find in it their eternal Send to: Bishop Baraga Association 1004 Harbor Hills Dr., Marquette, MI 49855 busy on the preparation of a dictionary and a grammar reward.” In early spring he sailed up Lake Huron, and of the Chippewa language, the first a volume of 576 passing through the Sault, arrived at La Pointe. pages, and the second of 662 pages. These activities After he had begun work at La Pointe, still another were not inspired by any desire for literary applause, flame was devouring his heart. It was, so to speak, a May 24 - “Happy are we that He needs not the expression of words. He sees our hearts. but rather by the single purpose of helping new mis - divided flame, one portion urging him on to other sionary priests among the red men to acquire the fields for other work, the other holding him back for This little church is built but of logs and bark and is in want of all that can please the eye; Chippewa language without unnecessary delay… work still undone. Nevertheless, after some eight yet it appears to me to be a more precious temple than so many churches in Europe.” It is scarcely necessary to go on. While tramping years of labor at La Pointe, and after being assured that through uncut forests on snowshoes to bring the a qualified priest would be sent to take his place, the Sacraments of Baptism and Penance perhaps to some flame to move overpowered him, and on to L’Anse he ~ Fr. Baraga, Indian Lake dying Indian, he was busying himself with plans to moved. The journey was a distance of some 180 give his mind more completely to God through the miles with which, however, he was not unacquainted 12 - The Baraga Bulletin — Spring 2013 Spring 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 5 because of the numerous canoe and dogsled travels he It prescribed, became the lodestar of his life. What 1866 meeting in Baltimore for a report on the meetings Baptiste Lamy, of Sante Fe (1814-1888). had made in previous years over the same routes. mattered it to him if he had to undertake a journey of to be taken personally by one of the participants to the For me, who have taught and loved that novel, it is Arrived at L’Anse, still another flame in his heart 350 miles in October, 1847, from Copper Harbor, Vatican, and the bishops had chosen as the man to wonderful to know that the character who inspired it rose up to consume it. Indeed it was the Flame of Michigan to Fond du Lac, Minnesota, as long as there carry the report of their proceedings the same bishop and shaped it was another one of Frederic Baraga’s Flames. Here at L’Anse he began the practice of rising were some newly converted Indians to instruct? What whom Cather’s novel thinly fictionalizes. In this case associations or connections. each day at 3:00am in winter to pray and meditate for mattered it to him if while returning in the following the report included the anxious deliberations about (Binding him and Baraga are some common hard - what to do in the case of the Marquette diocese and one, two, and even three hours without interruption... January, his guide is taken sick and he himself had to ships that each bishop faced. Like Baraga, Lamy used Baraga’s hope for relief in the form of a coadjutor, but Here was the source of the fire that burned in Baraga’s take care of the stricken man, and even carry the sick his long stay in Europe to raise funds and recruit semi - the information generated during the council was heart, and made him not merely to submit to hard - man’s pack in addition to his own, through the snow, canonically insufficient for a decision according to narians, priests and nuns in his native France for his ships, but to thank God for sending them to him. From as long as Christ was being preached? That was his diocese. If Baraga’s travel around his diocese and the L’Anse in 1844 he wrote: “L’Anse is an unpleasant, church protocol, and so he did not get the relief he work, the work that Almighty God had given him to Great Lakes were challenging, Lamy’s return trip from sad, sterile place, in no comparison with La Pointe… would have liked. do. He had given his will to God, and with God’s France was positively harrowing. When he and his lit - O, how I thank my God for calling me to the labori - The part of the story that completes it, the connec - help, he would not and did not take it back. tle traveling party had reached this country and arrived ous, indeed, but at the same time, highly consoling tion, is the identity of the churchman whom the bish - Thus, he surrendered to God in complete service at St. Louis, he had to organize and finance a wagon missionary state!” God had placed the fire in Baraga’s ops had delegated to report to Rome, that December of heart, and Baraga had bid it welcome and given it the inner faculties of mind, heart, and will. But, after 1866. 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But even more than this, he cut his will to the pat - strength, and with they whole mind; and they neighbor Complimentary parking for guests. tern of the very Will of God. To do His Will, to act as as thyself….do this and thou shalt live.” 4 - The Baraga Bulletin — Spring 2013 Spring 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 13 in movements toward beatification! same courtesy. In 1843 the new diocese of Milwaukee was estab - The last fascinating association or connection that I Association News lished and a priest from the diocese of Cincinnati, John have discovered and that has always especially pleased Martin Henni (Baraga’s junior: 1805-1881) was conse - me draws together two bishops whom I consider very PRAYER REQUESTS Thomas Schapman; Pauline Michael Mozil; Mrs. Ann Nemec; crated the next year. That same year he set out to visit special, one of course being Baraga. To tie them Mr. & Mrs. Rudolph Lukez for spe - Scharres; Rev. Paul Schiska; Maria Mrs. Karen Nemec; Mr. & Mrs. Baraga whose mission at LaPointe was in Henni’s juris - together, though, will take some circuitous explaining. cial intentions; Mrs. Aldo Sossi; Arthur Stancher; John Louis Novak; Zdravko & Andrea diction; Baraga was moving back and forth between I hope you’ll follow along! Pedranzan for prayers answered; Swantek; Carmen Taylor; Timothy Novak; Miss Sonia Omahen; Mr. there and L’Anse, Michigan. At LaPointe he was It was Church policy that from time to time provin - Peggy Susewitz for Gabriel Geych; Thomas; Paul Uimari; Eleanor & Mrs. Jake Opresnik; Mr. & Mrs. Henni’s most distant missionary, the only priest north cial councils be held. These were regional meetings of Zebrowski; Jacob Ziminski; James Florian Osredkar; Mrs. Eleanor of a line between Green Bay and Prairie du Chen in the bishops in a certain jurisdiction, like that of the diocese IN THANKSGIVING Ziminski Pavsek; Mr. & Mrs. Aldo southwest corner of Wisconsin. or archdiocese of Cincinnati. In addition, less fre - St. Peter Cathedral in honor of Pedranzan; Lawrence Penko; One mark of our subject individuals here seems to quently, Plenary or national councils were also to be Archbishop Alexander K. Sample; SUPPORT FROM INDIVIDUALS Veronica Petric; Ms. Jackie Pular; have been arduous journeying, and that was the case held. The Civil War had helped to delay the Plenary Mr. & Mrs. Drago Androjna; Mrs. Mrs. Katherine Pyykkonen; Mr. & for Henni here. The determined Henni took a conven - Council that Bishop Baraga was to attend, the Second, IN MEMORY Louis Bajc; Ann Carpenter; Mrs. Mrs. Lawrence Rozman; Mrs. tional steamer to Mackinac and had to engage a canoe in Baltimore, till 1866, and by that time his health was Bozidar Berginc by Thomas & Joan Miro Celestina; Mrs. Mary Cendol; Steve Sasa; Mrs. Olga Seday; Ms. and pair of Indians to paddle him all the way to Sault failing and he faced a long trip by rail; he took with him Lancour; In memory of Dorothy Mrs. Anges Cerer; Fr. Richard Dorothy Sega; Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Ste. Marie. From there he was able to arrange passage as his theologian one of his young priests, Honoratus Urbancich by Mr. & Mrs. James Cerpich; Mr. & Mrs. Christian Sezun; Mr. & Mrs. Henry Skarbez; on a fur company’s trading sailing vessel, the John Bourion. Debevec; In memory of Sister Chermely; Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Mary Skubitz; Mr. & Mrs. James Jacob Astor , as it delivered wholesale supplies to the During the meetings Baraga had a stroke and on his Mary Seraphine Balwinski by Clack; Mrs. Raymond Cowman; Slapnik; Mrs. Nick Sovich; Mrs. company’s warehouse at LaPointe. He had only as tumble down the stairs at the archbishop’s residence Joseph Balwinski Mr. Herman Doerfer; Mr. & Mrs. Lillian Starck; Mrs. Cyril Stepec; much time to meet Baraga, preach to his flock and con - his pectoral cross pierced his chest, causing bleeding Michael Dolinar; Mrs. Alojz Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Stepec; Mr. & firm them, with Baraga translating Henni’s words into which probably saved his life, he was hospitalized in CHAPEL PROJECT Draginc; Mr. & Mrs. James Mrs. Ivan Tomc; Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Ojibwa (Chippewa), as it took the trading company’s grave condition while his assembled confreres worried Diocese of Green Bay; Diocese of Drobnick; Anna Marie Ellenberger; Tomc; Mary Tominc; Mr. & Mrs. employees to unload the trade goods from the Astor about him and the possibility of a successor for his dio - Lansing; Diocesan Council of Mr. & Mrs. Felix Gaser; Miss Marie Victor Tominec; Deborah Uren; and reload her with dried fish and a few furs from the cese, while he lay in the hospital worrying how to Marquette – Society of St. Vincent Giuffre; Mrs. Helen Gorshe; Mrs. Deacon Lewis Vailliencourt; Mrs. warehouse at LaPointe. The time was Assumption Day, escape back to his diocese, for fear that the bishops at de Paul; KSKJ Life! American Cirila Grajciar; Dorothy Griff; Gregory Vasle: Mr. & Mrs. Anton and after barely a day with Baraga, Henni was off again the sessions would lean on him to retire to the relative Slovenian Catholic Union; St. Peter Judith Grozdanik; Mr. & Mrs. Ivan Vegel; Mrs. Marija Wurzer; Mr. & to retrace his trip southward. The Astor ran a regular ease and comfort of Baltimore in contrast to the harsh Cathedral; Hauptman; Mr. & Mrs. John Mrs. Ronald Zagar; Mr. & Mrs. cycle of trips between its owner’s warehouses at the life at Marquette. Surreptitiously he and Bourion stole Hozjan, Sr.; Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Karl Zajec; Mrs. Julie Zalar; Paul Sault’s portage and LaPointe, accepting travelers like off to the railroad station and boarded a train for home. Mark A. Aho; Cecelia Atanasoff; Hozjan; Mrs. Ignac Hozjan; Marija Zimperman; Mr. Frank Zupancic; Henni, but on such a cycle just a few round trips later, Bourion had to carry the frail bishop physically wher - James Anderson; John & Mary Jane Hutchinson; Mrs. Vida Jakomin; Mrs. Lawrence Zupancic; the Astor was wrecked at the lonely port of Copper ever they had to change cars. They did make it home Beaumier; Pauline Berry, Msgr. Mr. Michael Janesch; Mrs. Harbor on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Providence had and though his health continued to ebb, Baraga lived Ron Browne; Donna Christy; Joyce Katherina Jereb; Miss Beatrice GROUP DONATIONS been with Henni: had he been on that round trip he on until January, 1868. Marquette, with no railroad Dupras; Richard Elsey; Denise Jerkich; Mrs. Josephine Kastigar; Fanny Pung Charitable Trust; St. would have been stranded there at Copper Harbor and connection and with the lake frozen solid, was so com - Foye; Bishop James Garland; Mr. & Mrs. Just Knez; Mr. & Mrs. Mary of the Assumption Catholic would have been hard pressed to find any other way of pletely locked in snow that no bishop could even reach Kathleen Gobert; Helena Gorshe; Rudy Knez; Rudy Knez, Fr.; Mrs. Church Cleveland, OH; getting back to Milwaukee, especially in late fall. Marquette to bury him. Rev. Joseph Gouin; William Rose Kocin; Mr. & Mrs. Greg On a later occasion, in March 1853, Baraga paid a Many Baraga Association members have doubtless Gregory; J. M. Guenther; John Kozar; Mrs. Frances Krall; Mr. NEW BISHOP return visit to Henni in his see city for a few days in read a novel that gives a profound portrayal of the life Fabian; Martin R. Flynn; Jude Andrew Kristan; Mrs. Milka Krulc; BARAGA MEMBERS Milwaukee. Suggestions that Baraga would soon be of a bishop of Baraga’s time—though in a completely Howard; Sister Joann Jauquet; Rev. John Kumse; Mary Lacijan; Joan Antila; Yvonne Arnold; named bishop of a new vicariate apostolic in Upper different setting, New Mexico—if they have read the Scott Jamison; Colleen Juidici; Mrs. Victor Lamovec; John & Maryann Arrieri; Kathleen Michigan were in the air, and when it became a reali - stunning novel by Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Robert Jurkovich; Diane Kut; Rachel Lamovec; Mrs. Maria Danielson; Fred & Cathy Dittrich; ty, Henni was a co-consecrator at Baraga’s consecra - Archbishop , which focuses on, as its main character, a Henry Maibusch; Robert Kenneth Lavrisha; Brni Lavrisha; Mrs. Andrew Ehlinger; Larry & tion. On Henni’s behalf, the new vicar/bishop took bishop named Latour, an immigrant from France Marquardt; Emmett Norden; Rev. Anthony Luzar; Mr. & Mrs. Stefan Michalene Elzerman; Henrietta over the Episcopal responsibilities for his former mis - assigned to establish the diocese of Santa Fe. A more Allan Mayotte; James Menapace; Majc; Mary Lacijan; Mr. Dusan Englund; Marvin & Lois Gibson; sions in Henni’s diocese because he had the language recent Pulitzer Prize winning writer has done a biogra - Glen Morgan; George Peterson; Marsic; Mr. & Mrs. Martin Marsic; Mrs. Patricia Gibson; Donald skills and practical experience that had made adminis - phy of the real life bishop whom Cather fictionalizes Anthony Rebol; Dawn Ringsmith; Mr. James Meinke; Mrs. Josephine Henderson; Joanne Johnson; The tering them much easier on his part than it would have and it is amazing to see how closely she hewed to the Msgr. AJ Rezek; Geraldine Merhar; Ana Mihelich; Mr. Joseph Kekko Family; Donald Maladecki; been for Henni in far off Milwaukee. For the bishops details of the man’s life, in her exquisite novel. Robarge; M. Jean Rochefort; Mihelich; Ms. Arlene Mole; Mr. & Frances Mathews; Catherine of Detroit and Hamilton, Ontario, he exercised the It was customer after a plenary council such as the Archbishop Alexander K. Sample; Mrs. Anton Moze Jr.; Mr. & Mrs. Moffat; Robert & Barbie Nebel; 14 - The Baraga Bulletin — Spring 2013 Spring 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 3

Association News Fresh from the Shadow of Frederic Baraga: Michael Oberg; Mrs. Dorothy Morgan Webber; Kianne Wendt; Moving? Please let us know so Some Other Remarkable Characters Occhietti; Michael & Catherine we can update our records! By Michael J. Dunn Pilon; Carol Plowe; Marshall JOIN THE BISHOP BARAGA It is often said that people are judged by the friends retrieved and moved back to Cincinnati. Randall; Patricia Reynders; Wayne BIRTHDAY CLUB We extend a special thank you to they keep. Sometimes, though, relationships are loos - Father Baraga arrived at his Ottawa mission at Arbre Roy; Edward Sanderson; Mary Ann Do you or anyone you know share all that have written to inform us of er than that, just accidental associations or connec - Croche in northern Lower Michigan in 1831. He had St.Andre; Greg Stalboerger; Jeff & the birthday of June 29th with deaths and changes of address. tions. In the case of Venerable Frederic Baraga (1797- as his nearest fellow priest the missionary recently Debbie Uren; Fr. Gregory L. Bishop Baraga? Please if we have your name mis - 1868), the Church has judged him by his heroic virtues assigned to Mackinac Island by Bishop Fenwick. He Veneklase; Herbert Wagner; Kathy For years, lifetime member, June spelled or you know of anyone not rather than his associations, but if we look around was young Father Samuel Mazzuchelli. He had Weber; Chris White; Ms. Evonne Burich, has promoted the life of receiving the newsletter that among the accidental details of his life, we can run learned of the crying need for missionaries in America Winger; Bishop Baraga. Please write to should be receiving it, let us know! across some very interesting people with whom he had while he was in a Dominican seminary in his native her if you or someone special A gentle reminder - the post office casual associations but were important or interesting in Italy, and he had interrupted his studies when he was NEW YOUTH MEMBERS shares the same Birthday as our does not forward 3rd class mail. If their own right, completely apart from their playing a a sub deacon to complete his studies and serve under Sami Coyne; Kennedy beloved Bishop. Contact: June you have a winter address please part in Baraga’s story. As someone who enjoys learn - his fellow Dominican, Bishop Fenwick, who was also DeFrancesco; Julia Deiro; Joshua Burich, 243 Pewabic St, Laurium, let us know so we can ensure you ing more and more about Baraga, I can offer a little list Baraga’s bishop, and who loved the Indians “above all Goriesky; Jacob Goriesky; Toni MI 49913-0735. receive your newsletters. of people like that, and I think they add just a little bit others”. Goriesky; Claire Hallowell; Grace to Baraga lore. Fenwick ordained Mazzuchelli in September, 1830 Hallowell; Luke Hallowell; Calli Crypt Mass When he was just a seminarian in Europe, young and the next month assigned him to Mackinac. When THE BBA OFFICE John Nepumocene Neumann, (1811-1860) now Saint Baraga settled in Arbre Croche not long after, the two Janek; Camden Janik; Ty Janik; Crypt Mass will be held at WILL BE CLOSED Autumn Paulsen; Lauren Peters; 12:10pm on the following John Neumann, learned of mission activities that priests were less than a hundred miles apart and in win - Dayne Pini; Ryan Pond; Kurtis Mondays: JUNE 17TH-JUNE 28TH. Baraga was conducting in America because the tertime for a year or two they were able to snowshoe Provost; Kyle Provost; Wyatt August 19th I will be returning to Honduras Leopoldine Society in Europe had publicized them. that long way and serve as each other’s confessor and Provost; Sammy Schierschmidt; September 16th for a second mission trip. Please The society had been a major source of financial sup - spiritual director. Jillian Schramm; Ariana Valle; October 21st pray for safe travels and fruitful port for Baraga’s missionary work. So his example was Baraga was serving among the Ottawa and would Michael Walker; Alyssa Webber; work for us. one of the catalysts for Neumann’s coming to America be missionary to the Ojibwa as well. Fenwick Any phone messages or emails for the same purpose. Subsequently he was ordained assigned Mazzuchelli to work with the Winnebago and THE BISHOP BARAGA ASSOCNIATION received at the Association during in this country, eventually became a member of the Menominee tribes. That work among those tribes grad - this time will be answered when I Redemptorist order, became bishop of Philadelphia ually took him down toward Green Bay on Lake IS OFFERING A NEW SERVICE. and in 1977 was canonized a saint. Michigan and south and west into Wisconsin near the You can receive your Baraga Bulletin electronically now. If you return to the office on Tuesday July 2nd. The Redemptorists, incidentally, had played a role Mississippi River, close to Illinois, to Sinsinawa and are interested in receiving an email copy of the Bulletin instead of a in Baraga’s early years when Father Clement HofBauer, Benton, near Dubuque. printed copy, please complete the form below. Please print carefully Thank you for your understand - ing. now Saint Clement HofBauer, one of Baraga’s mentors Like Baraga he moved about by canoe or snow - so we can enter your email address correctly. We will begin this serv - became a member of the order. And Redemptorist shoes among his native people and saw his region God Bless, ice with the next Bulletin. priests helped staff the northern Lower Michigan mis - increasingly dominated by a mining culture. Baraga Len McKeen sions when Father Baraga moved to the Chippewa mis - had considerable skills as a carpenter and personally Name : sion field at LaPointe……on Lake Superior and then worked on details for his churches, like making the Congratulations to Sacred became the bishop of both the Lake Superior missions Stations of the Cross. Mazzuchelli had similar talents Heart Parish in Munising, MI. Email: and those in northern Lower Michigan. and actually served as his own architect for some of his They are the winners of our Baraga was welcomed for mission work in this churches and even for other buildings. One tiny Diocesan membership drive. country by pioneer Bishop Edward Fenwick of Mazzuchelli church remains intact, unpainted and Address: They had the most new mem - Cincinnati (1768-1832), who even went to the trouble shuttered except for one “reunion” Sunday in the fall bers in Jan. & Feb. For their of accompanying Baraga, by stage, to his initial mission when it is reopened for a single mass, at New Diggings, efforts, they have been awarded a assignment in northern Michigan personally by stage. Wisconsin. Baraga gift basket full of goodies to The dedicated and valiant Fenwick made Episcopal vis - After coming down with pneumonia as the result of Phone #: share with their parishioners. its to his sprawling network each year, as Baraga was a sick call, Mazzuchelli died Feb. 23, 1864. Like our Thank you for promoting God’s wont to do. On a visitation in 1832, Fenwick was sud - Bishop Baraga, Mazzuchelli (1806-1864) has been the Please send my Baraga Bulletin to me via email instead of Faithful Servant, Venerable denly stricken with cholera while far away from home subject of a Cause working for his sainthood, and like mailing me a printed copy. Frederic Baraga and for supporting and had to abandon the stage and very shortly died, Baraga, he has been declared Venerable. Amazing! the Association. almost alone at Wooster, Ohio. Later his remains were Two fellow spiritual directors of each other united today 2 - The Baraga Bulletin — Spring 2013 Spring 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 15

A Message From Our Executive Director May 16, 2013 Help Support the Cause! Dear Friends In Christ: Membership Information Shipping/Handling Charges Greetings in the Lord! We continue our work in the diocese and at this time, we have a Diocesan Membership entitles you to receive the Total Amount of Order . . . Shipping Charge Administrator, Fr. Francis Dobrzenski, who is doing a good job keeping things going. Yet, we earnestly pray quarterly publication The Baraga Bulletin that we will soon have a bishop who will be our leader in all things, but most importantly, in the cause for Worldwide Up to $25.00 ...... $5.00 Sainthood for Bishop Baraga. We are still preparing for the Baraga Days which will be held in Duluth in Annual ...... $10.00 Up to $50.00 ...... $7.00 Life (Individual/Family) . . . . . $50.00 October. I hope that you will join us for this. We really need your support and your presence at this special Over $50.00 ...... $10.00 (no shipping charge added) event. There has been no news as of this date from Rome on our last miracle. Yet, we have to remain patient. Bishop Baraga had much patience and it is from him that we learn the best example of patience. Now as we enter into summer, I am sure that you probably are preparing for many different experiences (summer vaca- The Apostle of the Chippewas (soft cover) M. . .e .r . c. h. . a. .n . d. .i s. .e ...... $10.00 tions!). I hope and pray that our Venerable Fredric Baraga will be with you to guide you. May his prayers Diary of Bishop Baraga (soft cover) ...... $20.00 keep you safe. My prayers are for you and yours as well. Baraga Dictionary of the Ojibway Language (soft cover) ...... $24.95 Short History of North American Indians by Baraga (soft cover) ...... $34.95 Dokler ne dobimo, bod vas blagoslovi s svojim dobroto! Life and Labors of Rt. Rev. Baraga by Fr. Verwyst (soft cover) ...... $22.00 (Until we meet, may God bless you with His goodness!) T-Shirts 100% Cotton (M, L, XL, XXL) ...... $12.50 Coffee Mugs ...... $6.00 Marble Based Paperweight (engravable) ...... $10.00 By Cross and Anchor (soft cover) ...... $15.00 Rev. Benedetto J. J. Paris Executive Director, Bishop Baraga Association History of the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie & Marquette (3 vol. hard cover) ...... $20.00 Misc. Baraga Notecards, including 1984 USPS Postcard ...... $1.50 Baraga County Beautiful & Blessed License Plate ...... $6.50 Christmas Ornaments ...... $10.00 FDeraro frmien dtsh, e Editor… It is incredible how quick the time goes. This month marks my 1 year Anniversary at the Baraga NEW!! NEW!! Description Quantity Cost Each Total BY CROSS & A NCHOR Association. It has been a great year full of endless opportunities to meet many wonderful supporters of Bishop $15.00 (soft cover) Baraga and the Association. I have also been blessed with the chance to delve deeper into Baraga’s history and learn more about the X = significant impact he had on the Upper Peninsula and to Catholicism in general. One thing remains X = unchanged from the day I started in this position and that is my belief that we still have much work to do. X = There are so many people (including our Youth) that do not know Frederic Baraga. We must continue to teach X = others about him and to strive to be like him. Sending support for the cause: Sub Total = In that regard, the Association has once again been blessed. Following in Baraga’s spirit of generosity, the For prayer request of Singing Slovenes and a group from Duluth have been working tirelessly to plan the upcoming Baraga Days Shipping (see chart) = that will be hosted in their area. We know that holding the event in Duluth may add some distance and cost In Thanksgiving for Membership = HISTORY OF THE for some travelers. Given that concern, the group has been fundraising to help keep the cost down, especially DIOCESE OF SAULT STE . In Memory of Total: (U.S. Funds) = of the meals and the venue. The Association would like to offer a special “Thank You” to them for their com - MARIE & M ARQUETTE mitment to Venerable Frederic Baraga and to Baraga Days. It is with the diligent work of people like these $20.00 (3 volume Please ship order to: hardcover) that others will come to know and love God’s Faithful Servant. Thank You! Name As for Baraga Days, you will receive a ticket for each meal that you attend this year. If you are traveling with a group, your trip coordinator will receive the tickets upon arrival at the hotel. If you are traveling inde - Street pendently, I will mail your tickets to you so please indicate the address you would prefer them to be sent to. City State Zip Each person that attends the Banquets will receive a Baraga Days 2013 button. You will be able to pick that up at the Banquet. Hopefully this will help expedite the “check-in” process for the dinners. Ì Check here if gift, send to: I look forward to seeing many of you in Duluth. If you need assistance with planning your trip please feel Card acknowledgement sent by the Bishop Baraga Association to the recipient should read: free to contact me. God Bless, Send to: Bishop Baraga Association, 347 Rock, Marquette, MI 49855 Len Bishop Baraga Association NON-PROFIT Quarterly Publication of the Bishop Baraga Association ORGANIZATION Executive Director: Rev. Ben Paris c/o Diocese of Marquette U.S. POSTAGE e-mail: [email protected] PAID
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Visit our website at fredericbaraga.org! Train Travel ...... 7 Lives Touched by Bishop Baraga An Adventurer ...... 11 Peter Crebassa was born in the Association News ...... 13 Red River County of Canada, August 15, 1807… In 1837 at La Support the Cause ...... 15 Pointe he married Nancy Roussain. The Blessing of Bishop Baraga’s Cross at Cross River, near Shroeder, Baraga presided at the wedding. In Lives Touched by Baraga . 16 Minnesota on September 11, 1932 by Bishop Thomas A. Welch, D.D. 1838 they moved to L’anse, MI of Duluth, MN. A large gathering of priests and laity were present on where he established his own trad- this occasion. (Refer to The Baraga Bulletin Spring 2012 for full article) ing post and served as postmaster. M The Crebassa’s brought their first three children to La Pointe so Baraga could baptize them. They raised their large family in L’anse, MI where many of their descen- dants still reside. (Taken from The Diary of Bishop Frederic Baraga On Tuesday, p.42) March 26, 2013, I recently had the great pleasure Most Rev. Alexander K. Sample, Archbishop-designate of Portland, to talk to Mr. & Mrs. Crebassa’s Oregon, hosted a Groundbreaking great grandson, Garet M. Peters on The Baraga Bulletin (ISSN 1047-5044) is published by Ceremony for the construction of the phone. Mr. Peters’ The Bishop Baraga Association the Bishop Baraga Chapel in the 347 Rock Street Grandmother is the daughter of Marquette, MI 49855
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