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Sing out with joy in memory Inside this issue: of Frederic Baraga. He came here many years ago to serve Insight from the Editor...... 2 the Chippewa. His care Association News ...... 3 extended over all in spite of Baraga in Slovenia ...... 4 race or creed. He lost no opportunity to search out Arbre Croche ...... 6 every need. And fought with Please consider attending Florida Baraga & Knights of Columbus Day - February 17, 2007 Grand River ...... 9 all his heart and soul to ban- ish weak man’s greed. LaPointe ...... 10 Lives Touched by Lives Touched by Baraga Assinins/L’Anse ...... 11 Dear Baraga, for us you spent Bishop long hours deep in prayer. Sault Ste. Marie ...... 13 Baraga Youth Involved In Learning About Bishop Baraga You brought God’s inmost It is always exciting to see the enthusiasm of the young people when learning about Bishop Baraga. Florida Baraga Days ...... 14 life to us in this fine land so Several groups have visited the office and we have made efforts to visit many of the Catholic Schools in Lives Touched by Baraga..16 fair. You traveled waters the Upper Peninsula and also the new Bishop Baraga School in Cheboygan, Michigan. calm and wild to reach the In 2005, the youth group of Sacred Heart Church in L’Anse decorated a Christmas tree on the water- front and chose to honor Bishop Baraga by using his image, snowshoes Indian. You blazed a trail and canoes. Young people from Rock, Michigan traveled to spend a straight to men’s souls for day walking in the footsteps of Bishop Baraga. Every January the third God to enter in. grade classes at Fr. Marquette Schools learn about Bishop Baraga and have a Mass to commemorate his death. This year the third grade stu- We can’t forget you in the dents will be taking on the roles of people who knew Bishop Baraga. Sault you stayed with us so They will teach at “Whole Church” to both adults and children about his life. long. You taught the Indian The Baraga Bulletin and white man just how to Thank you to all involved who have helped others learn about (ISSN 1047-5044) is published by Bishop Baraga - especially the young people. The Bishop Baraga Association get along. You struggled hard 347 Rock St. Marquette, MI 49855 n 906-227-9117 against the harm that much (Weekdays 8:30am-4:30pm) injustice wrought. You Executive Director: authored books in Ojibway Bishop James H. Garland e-mail: [email protected] that showed the way God thought. And spread the Editor-Archivist: Miss Elizabeth J. Delene email: [email protected] word of Gospel joy to natives

Pride Printing & Mailing Services of Marquette whom you taught. 2 -The Baraga Bulletin — Winter 2007 Winter 2007 — The Baraga Bulletin - 15 I had written my full name on the thoughtfulness behind the gift. bottom and the date in anticipation This summer I had a garage sale and a We Depend on Your Support Note Cards 5 Cards for $6.00 or $1.25 each that he would treasure this gift. I was family not being able to afford a bike I was Coffee Mugs...... $5.00 10 years old that year. All I remem- selling agreed to wash my windows in burgundy w/ gold ber is him handing it back to me and exchange for the bike. It was a tandem bike telling me the feet were the wrong and they wanted it so that their daughter Hello Friends of Bishop Baraga, Diary of Bishop Baraga I’ve been thinking lately how blessed I color. He would not tell me what color they would be able to ride on the back. She had Soft Cover...... $20.00 am for the nice letters and Christmas cards should be and I was told to figure it out. some problems with her hips and couldn’t and gifts I receive at Christmas. Sometimes I have never forgotten that a Mallard’s feet petal a bike. A delightful young girl who it is the smallest gift that makes the biggest are orange. I did repaint the feet, and goes to the Shriner’s Hospital for checkups The Snowshoe Priest Booklet impact, or the one that wasn’t expected. Grandpa did have that duck in his office and operations. (Story of the Shrine at L’Anse)...$3.25 I didn’t always feel this way. Every until the day he died. Funny how things work out, my grand- Christmas I put out a duck - yes, a duck, a I had the best gift and nicest surprise this pa Delene was a Shriner. It made me smile Our lapel pins & key chains were Christmas. Cookies left in my mailbox. and remember some special times with him mallard to be exact. It would be too painful designed by Ade Bethine, Terra Sancta to have it out all year, as it is a reminder of Homemade cookies, some varieties that I and my many trips to the Shrine Circus. Guild Art Director. my mistake, but at Christmas it represents to remembered as a child and some that were A reminder to me that we never know me that we are all precious and perfect in new to me, all delicious. Despite the name whose lives we may touch or the memories We Have Lesson our Lord’s eyes. on the package, it took me awhile to figure that may be triggered by our kindness. Pewter Lapel Pins ...... $6.00 Grandpa Clovis Delene loved the out- Love to all of you, Plans for Children doors. He was a Department of Natural out who left them, but when I did I was Elizabeth Pewter Key Chain ...... $10.00 Resources Officer and fished and hunted even more taken by the generosity and and took his spaniels out in the woods most T-Shirts 100% Cotton...... $12.00 How about a Gift every day of his life. My maternal grandfa- Association News (sizes only XL, XXL) ther, whom I usually write about, was soft AVE MARIA Lemont, December 13,2006 Membership?? and easy going, but Grandpa Delene P. 0. Box 608 Leaflets & Prayer Cards “meant business”, (just like Grandma LEMONT, IL 60439 Delene). Oh, he had his soft spots and Available for the Asking Description Quantity Cost Each Total when he fixed himself a bowl of ice cream To: BISHOP BARAGA ASSOCIATION The purpose of the Bishop Baraga with what he called his sauce on top, we Enclosed is the check for $2,920.00 which are the donations for the Association is to promote the cause X = would get a bowl too. But it was getting to Bishop Baraga Association received by Ave Maria Magazine from August for canonizing Bishop Frederic X = that ice cream that could be difficult. At din- 5,2004 until November 30,2006. Baraga as a Saint and to make the X = ner many times we would have wild game The donators are as follows: example of his love of God and or duck, something I didn’t like, but we X = $300: S. Mramor; $200: A. Markosek; $150 R. Staric; $120 F. Hren; service of his neighbor known to were always required to take at least one $100: M. Ravnik, A. Svetek; $80: J. Dolinar, R. Kolaric; $75: Z. Likozar; all people. Please pray for his Sending support for the cause: Sub Total = bite. To make matters worse sometimes $70: J. Berkopec, A. Gregorin; $65:M. Rebemak; $60: H. Fonda, A. cause for Sainthood. Grandpa would tell us it was alligator meat Tisev; $50: M. Hozjan, M. Rems, A. Vogel; $45: A. Babnik, A. Debevc, For prayer request of Shipping (see chart) = or something exotic. Imagine my surprise S. Vidmar; $40: J. Gorican, dr. V Mersol, J. Oberstar, B. Stark; $37; P. Membership Information In Thanksgiving for recently when I saw alligator meat in the Knaus; $30; A. Gregorc A. Hocevar, J. Horvat, A. Tasner, A. Zupanc, F. Membership = supermarket in Marquette! Membership entitles you to Petrich; $25: F. Lovsin, J. Samsa; $20: M. Amigoni, I. Antolin, F. receive the quarterly publication Grandpa shopped separately from In Memory of Total: (U.S. Funds) = Chemas, A. Cigale, R. Drensek, M. Erdani, Ferkul-Grajciar, The Baraga Bulletin Grandma who usually made us our Canadian Christmas gift. I learned early that life was M,Grdadolnik, M. Gregorc, S. Jarem, E. A. Kovacic, F. Kuhel, A. Currency Please ship order to: Malensek, S. Medved, M. Novak, F. Pieman, A. Slak, M. Virant, K. Annual ...... $10.00 . . $15.00 not fair. I never understood why “boys” Life (Individual/Family $50.00 . . $79.00 Name would get acres of land while “girls” got Zorjan; $17: M. Celestina; $15: M. Dovic, S. Ferkui (MN), M. Urbancic, (no shipping charge added) things like a stick pin or jasmine perfume for Volcjak, E. Veider; $10:1. Berlec, T. Gerkman, I. Hauptman, A. Ivanetic, Street Christmas from Grandpa. H. Klesin, M. Kraropel, J. Lomshek, M. Pecharich, J. Praprotnik, L. Shipping/Handling Charges I’m not sure why I wanted to please Rozman, M. Skubitz, M. Stariha, M. Tiedman, A. Vegel, A. Vesel, G. Total Amount of Order . . Shipping Charge City State Zip Up to $30.00 ...... $3.00 him, but I did. I had the perfect Christmas Vodisek, A. Vrenko, R. Vucko, A. Vujinovic; $5: ❒ Check here if gift, send to: gift for him. I set out to make Grandpa a M. Cugelj, F. Vasle; $4: J. Svigelj; $2: M. Draginc. $30.01 - $40.00 ...... $4.50 male mallard duck. I remember having to $40.01 - $50.00 ...... $5.75 Card acknowledgement sent by the Bishop Baraga Association to the recipient should read: buy all those colors of paint for the feathers, Pax et Bonum wishes for the Christmas and in New Year $50.01 - $75.00 ...... $7.00 even the teal for which I would have to buy Editor: Over 475.00...... $9.00 an entire jar even thou I needed the slight- Canadian & Foreign orders: Send to: Bishop Baraga Association est amount, but I wanted it to be perfect. For shipping add an additional $2.00 347 Rock, Marquette, MI 49855 • (906) 227-9117 14 -The Baraga Bulletin — Winter 2007 Winter 2007 — The Baraga Bulletin - 3 holy religion in their own language. It is true, that most of our Indians have seen bishops, but as yet they have never heard a Association News bishop preach to them in their language. PRAYER REQUESTS where the Servant of God Frederic NEW LIFETIME On Oct. 7, I again came back here to stay. Up to the pres- For my daughter so that she may keep Baraga was born to Eternal Life, Rev. BISHOP BARAGA MEMBERS ent I have always been traveling, I have not had a fixed resi- her job here in Flint, $25, A loving Raymond Moncher, Marenisco, MI. Dr. Joseph F. & Karolina Kess, dence, everywhere only for a few days. Now I am at home, Mom; for healing and strength for $300 Frank & Frances Pajk, Toronto, ONT. Victoria, BC; Joseph & Margaret thanks be to God! these three good women: Louise $250 Dr. Joseph F. & Mrs. Karolina McKevitt, Ironwood, MI; Mr. & Mrs. On Oct. 11 there was still an ordination. The same Mr. Sweatt, Kici St. Jacques & Lucy Hage, Kess & Victoria, B C. Richard Bell, Parma, OH. Thiele has received the subdiaconate, and today $25, Nancy Levine, Washington, $100 For restoration of the Baraga DC.; please pray for our family & House, Joseph Lastelic, Alexandria, JOIN THE BISHOP BARAGA he has been ordained deacon. Next Saturday is destined for his BIRTHDAY CLUB priesthood, and next Sunday he will celebrate return to faith of family members, VA; to promote our beloved Bishop $10, John & Betty Campbell, Oak Do you or anyone you know share his first holy mass, in our church of St. Mary; and I shall preach Baraga to Sainthood, Tom & Paula Lawn, IL; prayers for our nephew and Zargaj, Salem, MA. the birthday of June 29th with Bishop on this occasion. - All that is very noteworthy for me as well as for the cause of Bishop Baraga, $200, $50 Helen Gathman, Chicago, IL. Baraga? Contact: June Burich, 243 for Sault Ste. Marie: because these ordinations are the first that I Bishop Baraga’s residence in Tom & Joan Lancour, Greenfield, WI; $30 Nancy Levine, Washington, D. Pewabic St, Laurium, MI 49913-0735. am performing in this new diocese. please pray for a family member who Sault Ste. Marie still stands today. C.; blessings in the New Year, Ruth Crypt Mass Last Sunday, October 15, there was confirmation here, and has a brain injury, $10, John & Betty Cychosz, Bessemer, MI. Crypt Mass will resume after Lent. I sang a pontifical mass, the first which was ever sung in Sault St. Marie. Campbell, Oak Lawn, IL. $20 Msgr. Matthew Malnar, In recommending myself and my Missions to the pious prayers of our benefactors, I have the honor to be, IN THANKSGIVING Independence, WI; Ivanka Matic, Euclid, Members, when you move, please Mister Des Glajeux, For Karen’s surgery that relieved her of OH; Julia Fitzgerald, Zellwood, FL; Ann try to let us know! Your sincere friend in Jesus Christ, pain, $20, Joan Yager, Tawas City, MI; Cashin, Wadsworth, IL. We are trying to locate: + Frederic Baraga. $10 Anne Beyersdorf, Menominee, MI; thank you Bishop Frederic Baraga for M/M Herman G. Kleinheinz, Bishop & Vicar Apostolic of Upper Michigan. Mrs. Aldo Pedranzan, Stambaugh, MI; all the favors received; Bless you, Madison, WI Belva Hanson, Iron Mountain, MI. $25, M. S.; in thanksgiving, $25, Mary M. Bollero, Marquette, MI Frank & Toni Urankar, Concord, OH; GROUP DONATIONS Claire Beaudoin, Hancock, MI It is Official - Baraga Days for all the favors received, $20, Joe & St. Christopher’s Altar Society, $300, Terezija Stupica, Toronto, ONT Florida to Host Michigan Elaine Beiring, Marquette, MI; for so Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan - Marquette, MI. John McGuckin, Joliet, IL many blessings this Christmas Season, KSKJ Lodges of all of Minnesota - Kirt Schmidt, West Allis, WI Knights of Columbus and $20, Rudi & Anna Knez & family, $100. M/M Frank Tomazic, Cleveland, OH September 29 & 30th Cleveland, OH; for family and bless- We hope with this early date that as many people as Bishop Baraga Day Lodge of Martha Washington #38, $25, Ann Podmore, Mentor, OH ings, $200, Charles & June Momber, with a matching gift from the American possible can attend Bishop Baraga Days in the city where Belokranjski Club, Cleveland, OH The 20th Annual Michigan Knights of Columbus Grand Rapids, MI: in thanksgiving for Mutual Life Home Office of $50. Bishop Frederic Baraga first served as Bishop and the old- Rev. Louis Madey, Ypsilanti, MI and Bishop Baraga Day festivities will be held on prayers answered, $100, Maria Sever, Our Lady Help of Christians Parish est city in Michigan (third oldest in the United States). Mr. Mark Marentic, Mississauga, ONT Saturday, February 17, 2007 in Holiday Florida. Cedarburg, WI. in Toronto collected generously for the Fr. Ted Brodeur, priest at St. Mary’s Parish, our first John Prosen, Cleveland, OH The day will commence with 11:30 AM Mass at IN MEMORY Cause of Bishop Baraga in 2006. In Cathedral in the Diocese has hosted Baraga Days in the Shannon Wygaut, Waterford, MI St. Vincent DePaul Church, 4843 Mile Stretch Dr, In loving memory of my parents, Fred his will, Mr. Frank Perovsek, gave Gerald J. Nault, Dayton, OH past and I can tell by his enthusiasum that this year will $500 for the Cause of Bishop Baraga. Holiday, followed by a delicious luncheon and & Frances Beauchamp, $10, Norbert Jennie F. Kaller, Medina, OH again be a great celebration. Help also came from the following peo- informative program at Fr. Farrell Council #6746 “Mike” Beauchamp, Marquette, MI; Burt Biehl, Paradise, MI There are other priests in the Sault Ste. Marie area that ple, many of which are already lifetime in memory of William F. Thebert, KSKJ #65, West Allis, WI honor Bishop Baraga and we know they will be involved Knights of Columbus, 2040 Grand Blvd, Holiday. members. Every gift is appreciated: $20, James Thebert, Rosemount, MN; Ronald Sokol, Mountainside, NJ as well. One of the ideas mentioned by Fr. Ted was that Please RSVP by Wednesday, February 14, 2007 to: in memory of Genevieve Miks, $25, $50: Maria Jan, Karel Kromar. Knights of Columbus, Cedarville, MI he would have tables set up in the Catholic School we Joseph Miks, Zion, IL; in memory of $40: Anica Kure, Anton & Maria Herb Wegener Amelia Becker, Fort Myers, FL could have a “Walk of our Faith and Heritage” showing 4046 Passport Lane #102 brother Ronald & Victoria Wright, Muhic, Judita Senica. $30: Marija Hutchison, Ivanka Krevs, Olga Campbell, Euclid, OH others how you came to know about Bishop Baraga. I plan New Port Richey, FL 34653 $10, Robert Wright, Cooks, MI. Maria Mihelic, Teresa Gornik. on bringing some pictures of Past Baraga Days. It is a good SUPPORT FROM INDIVIDUALS 727-376-2743 [email protected] $20: Anica & Rudi Resnik, Frank Gamze, Donations received after January way for us to learn more about the Slovenian and Native $1000 Anonymous or Dr. France Habjan, Ema Pogacar, Joze 15, 2007 will be recorded in the American cultures. $500 To promote the cause for canon- Skulj, Alojz Zizk, Minka Princl. next issue. Times of Masses and details have not been set yet, but Glenn Barry izing Bishop Baraga as a Saint, Karl & $15: Maria Kramar, Maria Markes, “Tourist” Packages have arrived from Sault Ste. Marie. You 2951 Westmoreland Ct. Ann Zajec, Euclid, OH; for the con- Andrej Kukovica, Ludvik Sluga, Anica New Port Richey, FL 34655 tinued development of the Bishop Bishop Baraga Days will be held may request one from our office or get one by contacting Mikulic, Agnes Bevc. Baraga House as a shrine and place of in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan - The Sault Ste. Marie Visitors Bureau at 727-375-5342 [email protected] $10: Maria Mlakar, Ana Sircelj. www.saultstemarie.com or call 1-800-MI-SAULT. pilgrimage for the sacred edifice September 29th & 30th 4 -The Baraga Bulletin — Winter 2007 Winter 2007 — The Baraga Bulletin - 13 BARAGA IN SLOVENIA Faith in the Diocese Bishop Frederic Baraga to the Propagation of Faith, Paris Who was Frederic Baraga? Mister Des Glajeux, Sault Ste. Marie, Oct. 18,1854. In accord with his education, a lawyer, by vocation, a priest, missionary and bishop; with his Slovenian prayer President of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith books, above all Soul’s Pasture, one who enkindled heartfelt piety among the Slovenian people; with the publishing Mr. President. of a catechism and other religious books in the Ottawa and Ojibwa languages, an initiator of Indian literacy; with his I have the honor to present you a small report of my return to my Missions, and on my first Episcopal ethnographic collection offered to the Land’s Museum in Ljubljana and through his monograph on North American Visitation to Lake Superior. On May 20 I have left Paris and the next day I was at Antwerp, where my mis- Indians, originally in German and translated into French and Slovene, the originator of Slovenian ethnology of for- sionaries have embarked on board a sail ship for New York. I have continued my journey with one of my eign peoples; with his apostolic zeal, one of the most distinguished missionaries of the 19th century; with the dedi- priests, and we embarked at Liverpool on a steamship. I was obliged to remain for a long time in New York cation of his life and his love for simple Christian believers, a candidate for Sainthood. for various business matters. After many delays and unforeseen retardations, I arrived here on August 21 at Born on June 28, 1797, in the manor of Mala vas, which belongs to the village Knezˇja vas. Baptized on June 29, Sault St. Marie, where my future residence will be. My good children here were very pleased to finally see in the church of St. George in Dobrnicˇ, which at that time belonged to the patronage of the Sticˇna seigneury and before me, after having awaited me for such a long time. But when they heard that I must continue my journey at that to the Sticˇna monastery, which was closed in 1784. once, they were sad. I was not able to stay here for a long time, because I knew that my poor children on Frederic’s father, John Baraga, an organist at the church of Stari trg near Lozˇ, later became the caretaker of the Lake Superior, my good Indians, were waiting for me since spring. I have, therefore, continued my journey, castle Belnek and then Mirna, where he came to know the Jencˇicˇfamily of Mala vas and, as a widower, married their and on August 27, I arrived at La Pointe, where was my first mission on Lake Superior. It is six years since I only daughter, Katherine Jencˇicˇ. When Frederic was 3 years old, his enterprising father bought the castle and have been at La Pointe, and it is almost a year since Father Skolla, my successor, has left that mission. The seigneury of Trebnje and his uncle Ignatius, the castle Belbek near Moravcˇe. poor people of this mission were extremely pleased to see me again, and they were also very grateful for this, Both families lived in close friendship, and the young Frederic along with his two sisters, Amalia, the elder, and that I brought them a missionary who was to stay with them. I have spent eight days at La Pointe, during which Antonia, the younger and born in Trebnje, regarded the castle Belnek as their second home. Belnek, which was one I was very usefully occupied. There were about a hundred persons for Confirmation, and I was obliged to pre- of four castles in the valley of Moravcˇe, was burned down and destroyed during World War II; only humble remains pare them all myself for Confirmation, and to hear their confessions, because the new missionary still does not and a park give evidence of it today. know anything of the Indian language. I called them every day to instructions, and I spent the rest of the day In 1808, when Frederic was 11 years old, his mother died. The former assistant priest of Moravcˇe, Megusˇur, who in the confessional, because not only the confirmands, but also nearly all the rest came to confess. This con- firmation at La Pointe was the first that I have given in my new diocese. became the pastor of Golo, took him in and prepared him, his sister Antonia, and other children for an entrance exam- From La Pointe I went to Ontonagon, which is a small town on Lake Superior. I have remained there 12 ination for schools in Ljubljana. Not far from Golo there is the well-known pilgrim church of Our Lady Queen of days in order to arrange the spiritual affairs of this new Station. I have placed a priest there for the first time, Peace in Kuresˇcˇ ek. Most probably the young Baraga also pilgrimed there. an Irishman, but he also speaks French with great facility. He preaches in English and in French. There was In 1809, Frederic passed his examination for entrance into gymnasium. He boarded at George Licht’s, a book- confirmation here also, but here I had only a few Indians and a few German to confess; the Irish and the French seller in Ljubljana, some meters down from the bishop’s palace. Frederic’s father, who was an exceptional booklover, confessed to the priest. Here they had still another solemnity; it was the blessing of the beautiful church that procured books from him. During that time Frederic came into contact with the art of publishing and then also became the Catholics of the place had had built during my journey to Europe, in the hope that I would bring them a enthusiastic about writing and publishing books. priest. That I have done also, to the great satisfaction of those good Catholics. It is believed that this little town During Frederic’s 15th year, his father died. At that time, Dr. George Dolinar, a professor of church history and of Ontonagon will become the most important city of Upper Michigan. church law at the lyceum of Ljubljana, provided care for him and his sister Antonia, who was studying at the Ursuline From Ontonagon I came back to Sault St. Marie, but still only for a short time, for four days, during which school in Ljubljana. Dolinar’s home, today’s DZS publishing house, was only about 100 steps from Licht’s. He not I have given the tonsure and the four minor orders to Mr. Thiele, a theologian, who gives me much consola- only provided board and room for Frederic, but was also his confirmation sponsor. tion and much hope for his usefulness in the missions of Upper Michigan. After this short stay I left for L’Anse In 1816, after Frederic finished gymnasium and two years of philosophy in Ljubljana, he then went to Vienna, on Lake Superior, where I was a missionary for ten years. There the joy of my good children was great when where he studied law at the University of Vienna. He remained connected with the Dolinars in a special way through their ardent desire of seeing me as bishop was finally realized. My stay at L’Anse was of twelve days, and I his friendship with Dolinar’s daughter Anna, two years, younger than himself-dreaming about her as the future “Lady was again, obliged as at La Pointe, to do everything myself, to instruct the confirmands and to hear their con- of Trebnje”, his wife to be. He completed his studies with excellence, he was especially interested in languages. He fessions, because the missionary whom I have also took joy in painting and drawing. In the two keepsake albums dedicated to his sister Amalia as well as three oil newly placed there does not as yet speak the paintings reveal his natural gift. Indian language. Here, too, as at La Pointe, all, or After having finished his ordinary studies of law, he returned from Vienna, renounced his inheritance, transferred nearly all, have come to confession; and on the his Trebnje seigneury to Joseph Gressel, the husband of his sister Amalia, and entered the seminary of Ljubljana. He first of October I have given confirmation in that attended the theological studies at the lyceum, in the building where he had earlier completed gymnasium. Two years dear Mission of the Most Holy Name of JESUS. later, September 21, 1823, he was ordained a priest in the Cathedral of Ljubljana. He gave his first homily at the We were all moved, even to tears. It was stirring Ljubljana Church of Trnovo. and consoling to see the attention and the admi- In October 1824, Fr. Baraga was named an assistant priest and catechism teacher for the parish of Sˇmartin near ration with which these good Indians looked at Kranj. He not only spent a great deal of time hearing confessions but was also zealous in his sermons, and in the quiet and heard their former Father and missionary of his own room fervently wrote and translated. For the occasion of the holy year 1826, he published his first work, whom they now see before them as Bishop, announcing to them the consoling truths of our the small booklet Admonition for the Holy Year. It was also in Sˇmartin that he composed his first prayer book, Soul’s Principal Street in Sault St. Marie. 12 -The Baraga Bulletin — Winter 2007 Winter 2007 — The Baraga Bulletin - 5 structing a new mission, which offers a new field for my labors, on which I may report; and I will not lag Pasture, which was issued in 1830. in the satisfactory performance of my duty, according to my strength. In the church of Sˇmartin there is a painting of St. Aloysius, which it seems Baraga himself painted and presented Recommending myself to the pious prayers of all the honorable benefactors and friends, I remain with to them. Baraga’s self-portrait, which is preserved in the Slovenian Museum of Religion at Sˇticna, is also from this all esteem and respect, period. In May 1828, Fr. Baraga was transferred to Metlika in Bela krajina. He did not complain, nor did his zeal abate. Your Princely Grace’s Most humble servant, He saw that the church there was without a Way of the Cross and therefore immediately ordered one to be made. Then, Frederic Baraga, after some months, he himself hung it on the church walls amidst a grand celebration. He also renovated the main Missioner altar of St. Nicolas as well as both side altars. He continued to dedicate a great deal of his time to writing and trans- lating and also to reading and meditation. When in August 1829, a booklet on the missions of North America came into his hands, his desire for the missions matured. He then requested a release to go to the American missions from the bishop. Just before his departure to America, he published the booklet On the Veneration and Imitation of the Mother of God, which could be called the first Slovenian “Sˇmarnice” (a special Marian devotion during the month of May). In the year 1832, his second Marian book appeared still bearing his name as an assistant priest in Metlika: a translation of Alphonse Liguori’s Visiting Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament and Saluting Mary the Most Pure Virgin, with additional prayers from Baraga’s Soul’s Pasture. In 1836 and 1837, he journeyed from America to Europe to find new missionaries, and obtain increased financial support. In fact, a missionary had already joined him in the previous year, Franc Pirc, born in Kamnik and a distin- guished promoter of fruit growing. Although Fr. Pirc was already in his fiftieth year, he became enthusiastic about the missions upon reading Baraga’s missionary letters which were translated into Slovene by Janez Ceglar, the pas- tor of Visˇnja Gora. The first volume appeared in 1833 under the title Brotherhood of St. Leopold and the second vol- ume, in 1937. Fr. Baraga arrived in Ljubljana April 6, 1837, together with an ethnographic collection, his gift to the Provincial Museum. During his short stay in Ljubljana, he involved himself with the publication of his book Meditations on the Four Last Things as well as with the book An Aid to Praying the Holy Rosary so as to Please God and Mary by Michael Hofman, the former canon of the Chapter Church of Novo mesto, and for which Baraga wrote the Foreword. In returning to America, his sister Antonia accompanied him. They took the first 14 paintings of Langus with them, Amalia later procuring still more. Monument to Fr. Frederic Baraga at Assinins. In 1853, Fr. Frederic Baraga was ordained bishop for the bishop’s seat of Sault Marie. He needed more priests and financial support for his diocese and therefore journeyed once again to Europe. He reached Ljubljana January 27, 1854. Then, on February 1st, as described in his diary: “Offered mass in Dobrnicˇ. There said a prayer of thanksgiv- Missionary Requests ing at the baptismal font for the infinitely great grace of my own regeneration on June 29, 1797, at this baptismal Fr. Frederic Baraga, L’Anse to Mr. Livingston, Sault Ste. Marie font.” Original letter collection of the Chippewa County Historical Society As a missionary in America Fr. Baraga did not forget his Slovenian countrymen. He edited three more Slovenian Mr. Livingston. religious books: Meditations on Four Last Things (1837), Golden Apples (1844), and Heavenly Flowers (1846). In My dear sir. 1837, a Slovene translation of Baraga’s book: Description of Customs an Manners on Indians in Middle America was I take liberty to send you some letters which you will please to forward. — I received a letter from Mr. issued; it was originally written in German and had a title picture of Pocahontas. The Blasnik printery in Ljubljana Crooks, by which I understand that a box of books has been sent to me from Europe. It has been forwarded printed a book by Baraga in Ojibwe entitled Gete Dibadjjmowin from New-York to the Saut on the 6. of Oct. last. It is perhaps now at your place, or it will arrive next spring. (Stories of the Life of Jesus) in 1843. Pray don’t send it to Lapointe, but to the Anse, where I now live. 1997, for the occasion of the 200-year anniversary of Baraga’s birth. A Cathecism for Indians was published in Ljubljana - till now, the only translation of any of Baraga’s books in Indian into a European language. It was pro- I am, sir, respectfully cured by the Salesian priest Fr. Charles Ceglar, who researched Baraga’s life in America, and who endowed his rich L’Anse Febr. 9, 1844. Your ob. serv. collection on Bishop Baraga to the Slovenian Museum of Religion at Sticna. Frederick Baraga.

Please, sir, send me 3 barrels of flour and 100# of lard by the next vessel that shall come to Anse. This publication was reprinted from a pamphlet printed in Slovenia entitled “On the Path of Three Famous Slovenes - Baraga, Valvasor, Vega.” (Anse has the meaning of cove or inlet and was often used instead of “L’Anse” meaning “The Cove”.) TIC Trebnje, Baragov trg 1 8210 Trebnje 6 -The Baraga Bulletin — Winter 2007 Winter 2007 — The Baraga Bulletin - 11 Fr. Baraga Writes from his First Mission Fr. Baraga’s New Mission of L’Anse in 1844 Fr. Frederic Baraga, Arbre Croche to Leopoldine Society, Vienna, 1831, August 22. Bishop Frederic Baraga to Archbishop Milde, Archbishop of Vienna Director of the Leopoldine Society written February 12, 1844 Most Rev. Central Direction of the Leopoldine Society! I now have left Cincinnati and at present I am at my mission post among the Indians of the Ottawa nation. My Your Princely Grace! wish is now fulfilled; I live among the poor Indians, most of whom are still non-Christians, and have a boundless filed My last letter to Your Princely Grace was on September 12th of last year. Among other matters, I stat- open to cultivate, because, (through God’s infinite mercy,) I am the only missioner of the diocese of Cincinnati who ed that I plan to establish a new mission. This plan I have now actually begun to achieve. I am no longer lives among the Indians; perhaps there are some missioners in our vast diocese who have Indians in their mission dis- at Lapointe, where previously I have been for several years, but in another location on Lake Superior, tricts, but the greater part of their population is, nevertheless, composed of pure whites; however, my mission district called L’Anse of Lake Superior, which is distant 180 American miles, (60 hours walk), from Lapointe. This consists of pure Indians; I am the only white man, far and wide. The name of my mission station is Arbre Croche, or is now my new field of labor, in which I will devote my modest service to the Lord of the Harvest, for the Arbre Crochu, that is, Crooked Tree, in the language of the Indians: Waganakisi. glory of God and for the salvation of immortal souls. On April 12 of this year, I departed from Cincinnati to the mission post assigned to me. The Rt. Rev. Bishop I arrived here on October 24th of last year. The Indians were extremely pleased to see a missioner Edward Fenwick decided, for the promotion of the missions among the Indians, to make the entire long journey from come to their locality. They came to me and in a friendly manner offered me their hands. My mission Cincinnati to Arbre Croche with me. The Indians in this region know him; he was with them once while on a visi- tation journey; they call him the Great Blackrobe, or the High Priest, and have a great veneration for him and an affairs here progress very well, for which I incessantly thank the infinitely good God. In the short time unlimited confidence in him. It is therefore very useful that he came here with me and introduced me to them. The that I have been here I have twice had numerous and consoling conversions of the Indians, and many oth- distance from Cincinnati to my mission post is at least as far as from Vienna to Naples. ers are preparing themselves for the reception of holy baptism. On the most holy Christmas day, 29 Indians The Rt. Rev. Bishop Fenwick gave me the instruction to depart from Cincinnati a few weeks before him, and on received the grace of spiritual regeneration by water and by the Holy Spirit. The number of my previous the way to search for Catholic families, up to the first station where there is a Catholic priest, so that they can make baptisms in this new missions is 56. Among them were some who soon after their reception of the bap- their Easter confessions. In a small city, by the name of Miamisburg, 35 American miles from Cincinnati, I found the tismal grace went up to eternity, and who, clad in white clothes, were immediately permitted to come first Catholics, all of whom are Germans. I stayed there a few days, said Mass, preached three times and heard con- before the wedding-feast of the Lamb! — Oh! why are there so few missioners among the commiseration- fessions. There I learned about another Catholic family which lives 12 American miles from Miamisburg; I went there worthy Indians! How many precious immortal souls could be saved if there were more! and found a venerable man with an equally good wife and 6 children. The good people were very happy about my Soon after my arrival I opened a school which I keep with the help of some good and capable indi- arrival, and prepared themselves for the Easter confession, and on the following morning the man and his wife and the two oldest children received Holy Communion. I also preached there, in this man’s spacious room. Many viduals, whom I brought with me from Lapointe for this purpose. The number of our pupils is 51, name- Germans live around there; although they all are Protestants, they nevertheless like to listen to the word of God even ly: 20 boys, 3 men, 19 girls and 9 women. These pupils will first be instructed in reading and catechism if a Catholic priest announces it to them. The man spread around the arrival of a Catholic priest who is to preach and then also in writing and arithmetic. Most of the Indian pupils learn very easily, because they have a there; and since no Catholic priest has ever been there, (as I was told,) therefore a good many gathered for the ser- great inclination for it. Some of our pupils have learned to read in less than two months. mon. They were satisfied with the sermon, however no tree falls with one blow. When I consider all these circumstances, then I am firmly led to believe that it is the will of God that This man then took me three miles further into the forest to an old Catholic Irishman. I have learned that this poor I establish a permanent mission. That is why I have begun, soon after my arrival, with the preparation for old man of 81 years lives for a long time in that wilderness, and that he is already half blind and deaf, and certainly the erection of a new small church, with a residence for the missioner, and a school-house, and to make for a long time has had no opportunity to receive the holy sacraments. The night before my visit I sent a boy to him, some small houses for the new converts. For as long as the Indians live in their huts, scattered in the who informed him that on the following morning a priest will come to him, hear his confession, and administer to forests, one cannot civilize them easily nor accustom them to industry and cleanliness. Therefore I have him the Holy Sacraments. The good old man was very happy about this. Accordingly, I came to him on the follow- ing morning and found now decided on a plan to make a reduction, according to the example set by the good old Jesuits of him in an extremely Paraguay, and to gather them all in one village around the church. This plan pleases my Indians very miserable hut. In it much and all have promised to live in houses in the future and to follow the customs of the whites. lives he, his wife and I promised them I will have fifteen houses this year; next year, if God spares my life, and if I find some also 3 other women other support, I will complete some more. Now, this establishment will cost very much money. True, with 5 small children. our buildings are all of wood, which costs nothing here; but the laborers must be paid and the lumber for The poor old man, the floor must be sawed by hand, because we have no sawmill here. But what a gain when this mission who for more than 50 will once be founded! How many Indians who live in huts which may be compared to lairs of bears, and years has not met any whose customs coincide with the holes, will be civilized and transformed into good, God-serving priest, now received the long missed Holy Christians! According to my preliminary estimate, this Indian settlement will cost between $400 and Sacraments. The others $500. I now beg that Your Princely Grace be most graciously inclined to do as much for this reduction in the house are not as your Most Reverend may deem best. Catholics. I was sin- Since the conversions of the Indians at Lapointe are seldom, and the baptizing of adults few in num- cerely pleased that I ber, and the affairs of the missioner have become similar to those of a pastor in the old Christian-catholic could offer this spiritual countries, I therefore have little material to communicate with which to interest the honorable members 18 ft. long Mackinaw Boat and Birch Bark Canoe, help to this old man, of the Leopoldine Society, and to arouse their participation in our labors. But now I am engaged in con- best means of travel on lake or stream in the 1830’s. who stands at the door 10 -The Baraga Bulletin — Winter 2007 Winter 2007 — The Baraga Bulletin - 7 of eternity. - But now God granted me still another inexpressibly great missionary joy. There are, namely, as I have Bishop Baraga at LaPointe mentioned, 5 small children of different mothers in the hut of this poor old man, and I learned that as yet not one of them has been baptized. The 3 mothers of these children are unfortunate creatures who profess no religion at all, and Fr. Frederic Baraga, LaPointe to Rev. Vincent Badin, Detroit who therefore also never concerned themselves about baptizing their children, just as there are, unfortunately, many such people in this wild and all too-free land; and, moreover, there never was a priest in that wilderness. When I Reverend Mr. Badin: made the proposal that I want to baptize these children, two of the mothers immediately gave their consent; the third was not very agreeable, although soon she yielded, and the Holy Baptismal function proceeded. I thanked God sin- I received your letter of September 28 the day before yesterday, March 5. You will note that mail in these cerely for this, and at the same time begged Him, He might, if it is His most holy will, take some or all of the five Indian countries is not very fast. Regarding your medals, of which I have a large quantity, I regret very much poor creatures, who now have become his children, to Himself in their innocence, or that He might let them come for not having an opportunity to send them to you before [the opening of] navigation on Lake Superior, as it in a more fortunate situation than that in which they are now. Now I returned to Miamisburg and then went further to another rather large city of the name of Dayton. Here I is towards the end of June. You mention other objects also, but I did not get any for you; but the medals were waited for the Rt. Rev. Bishop Fenwick. In the meantime I performed the duties of a missioner in this city. There are given for you. very few and very lukewarm Catholics here, with about two exceptions. On May 1, I said holy Mass in the Catholic The 630 francs which Msg. Rese house where I lived, and in the afternoon I preached in a Protestant church. There are very many Germans here of paid for the transportation of my Section of Old Mission Church, LaPointe, Madeline Island. all kinds of sects. It seemed very strange to me to preach in a Protestant church and before a Protestant assembly; effects will be refunded him by Mr. because there one preaches in his own clothing, without a cassock, without a stole. Legros at Havre, to whom I forward- Ach! The religion in this country is really in a miserable condition! Besides the many sects that are here, one also ed this sum from New York by Mr. finds everywhere a large group of real atheists, who are not even baptized and have no sort of faith or religion at all. Crooks. All that pertains to the cost Among them are also kindhearted creatures that have grown up in this sad condition only through the negligence of of printing and binding the Indian their parents and because of the great lack of priests; and now also remain in it because they do not know better. books has been assigned to me by the Many of these unfortunate creatures would be easily gained to God and to the Church, if only there were more preach- Propagation of the Faith. If they have ers of the faith here. I was inclined to ask the bishop to let me always travel thus around the country and to let me then charged this sum to my Bishop seek such lost souls, where I then could stay with each one so long until he would be sufficiently instructed, strength- they acted contrary to my intention, ened in the faith and baptized; then I would again move on. How many souls could I gain there for God! - When I because when they spoke of this to was still in Cincinnati, I conferred about this with the Rev. Vicar-general Rese; however, he told me that it is more me I told them I would rather seek useful and better if I go to the Indians, for the prospects there are even better. Therefore there remains nothing else for me to do in this regard but to beg God that he might soon send more laborers to this abandoned part of His vine- the required sum elsewhere than to yard, in order that so many immortal souls, purchased with His Precious Blood, do not perish. see it charged to me: “Do not worry From Dayton I traveled with my Rt. Rev. Bishop to Detroit where we arrived on May 15. In Detroit we remained about this, it is not your concern; we 5 days. There are very many German and French Catholics there. In the time that I spent there I occupied myself with shall have the books printed for your preaching and hearing confessions. From Detroit we traveled by water to Michillimackinac, and arrived there on May Mission.” 26. We did not stay there long, and on May 28 we finally arrived here in Arbre Croche. Happy day! That placed me The money of which the bishop speaks, that is to say 6000 florins which he is to obtain from Munich, still among the Indians, with whom I now want to remain uninterruptedly until the last breath of my life, if it is the most awaits him there; he will receive this sum as soon as he reaches Munich. holy will of God. Arbre Croche is the French name of a district of about 8-9 square miles which lies on Lake Michigan, along its I beg you, Sir, to give my compliments to Mr. Clement Hammer, as well as to all the other priests who are northern limits. The country is sparsely populated and not even one white person is settled here. The Jesuits have scat- arriving in such large numbers from Europe. tered the first seed grains of the Christian Faith in this country; however, since no priest has been here for a long time after the Jesuits, the Faith became almost entirely lost. During the last years some missioners have again come here, With respect, but only for a few days annually, and so not much good could be affected, until, finally, two years ago, a resident Sir, missioner was placed here by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Fenwick. This made those that already were Christians, and those Your sincere friend, that yearned to become Christians, extremely pleased and satisfied. Most of them grouped themselves in one loca- Fr. Baraga. tion, erected there a wooden church and a small wooden house for the priest, as also a schoolhouse for the instruc- tion of their children. However, the missioner who was here did not fulfill his mission duties with the zeal expected of him; he finally left this post and returned to Europe. Therefore the Indians at this place were exceedingly pleased LaPointe, March 7, 1838. and happy when the bishop came here with me and assured the Indians, who had assembled solemnly, that he wants to leave me with them, and that I am resolved to remain with them for good. The Indians of this region, who have already been converted to Christianity, are good Christians. I cannot describe When one must drag himself on snowshoes all day long, day after day, through these pathless primeval forests the childlike attachment and submissive obedience which these good people of nature have towards their priest. They of North America, one can make these journeys only with great exertion and almost complete exhaustion. never call me otherwise than Father, nor do they conduct themselves towards me otherwise than like good children towards their father. When I tell them anything, they do it precisely and willingly; and the order in church, which Winter, 1846 now has been introduced here, they observe punctually and faithfully. It is now the order here that the Ave Maria is rung daily at 5 o’clock in the morning, (in winter it will be rung later,) and soon after that it is rung for Mass, at which, 8 -The Baraga Bulletin — Winter 2007 Winter 2007 — The Baraga Bulletin - 9 daily, very many appear. Before the Mass the morning prayer is said by the chief of this tribe. In the evening, at sun- down, it will be rung again, and again they assemble in church; there is singing and the evening prayer is said, and Fr. Baraga’s Conditions at Grand River after the prayer I give them daily, whenever I am not away on some tour, a catechetical instruction of which they are Fr. Frederic Baraga, Grand River to Bishop Frederick Rese, Detroit, naturally very much in need. I have an interpreter who is one of their nation, but who also speaks very good French, from the Notre Dame University Archives (the only one in the entire mission district.) I preach in French, and when I have said a few sentences, I remain silent, Right Reverend and Dear Sir! and the interpreter, who stands some distance away from me, says it in the Ottawa language. I also hear confessions Your letter of the 6th p. has been received. We have been for a long time in expectation of your visit, but with the help of this interpreter, and the Indians are very satisfied because he is an excellent Christian and at the same understood afterwards that the steamboat which had you on board, did not stop at the mouth of the Grand time very well instructed. They come very willingly and frequently to confession after I have recommended this to River, and that it was of course impossible for you to pay us a visit. I told this to our Indian children, and them, and almost no day passes by without my having some confessions. On Sundays and feastdays we assemble they are satisfied. We don’t expect you more this year, because the season is already too late and too bad for four times in church: early in the morning for morning prayers, at 10 o’clock for high Mass, in the afternoon at 3 a voyage in such wilderness as ours is. o’clock for vespers and Christian doctrine, and in the evening for evening prayers. Regarding the cooking-stove mentioned in your letter, I wrote already, but I don’t recollect, whether it was In the school which I keep here, I have about 40 children, partly boys, partly girls, some of whom are very tal- in a letter to you or to another, that I don’t want it now. I sold my house that was transposed last winter on ented. My interpreter instructs them in reading and I explain the catechism to them, with the help of the interpreter, Mr. Campau’s side, and I live now in a small house on the Indian side, near our chapel, and have a good which they grasp excellently and retain. The boys are instructed also in writing. chimney in my house; so I don’t want a cooking stove. It is ever so much consoling and gratifying for me to be here. The conversions of the Indians who live around I was informed a long time ago by letters of my sister and Mr. Lichtenberg that a box has been sent to New- here, are so frequent that, in the short time of two and a half months that I am here, already seventy-two Indians, York with several presents for my Mission. Pray, Sir, have ye the kindness to send it to the mouth of Grand- partly children, partly adults, (among them are also venerable old people of 60-70 years,) have received the holy River before the close of navigation. Thus far the answer on your last. sacrament of Baptism. With my interpreter I make tours from time to time into the country, and when I come to a Now I shall take leave to make some remarks on a passage in a letter of the Rev. Father Saenderl at L’Arbre hut, I go it. In many of the huts I find only Christians, in many only non-Christians, and in some they are mixed. croche, dated the 25th of August. He says: “Very Reverend Bishop! As much as I could make out from what Where I find non-Christians I endeavor to show them the usefulness and the necessity of the Christian religion, which the Bishop said, he is deep in debt in Green-Bay, where F. Mazzuchelli left over to him on account approxi- God Himself has taught us; and I very often have the joyful consolation of seeing how deep the word of God pene- mately 4000 dollars to pay, so that he no longer will be able to keep up his mission (on Grand River,) even trates into the hearts of these poor Indians, and how they make the resolve to accept a religion which can make them though extraordinary help has been dealt out to him.” [Original in German] It is true, Sir, that the erection of temporally and eternally happy. Then I see to it that they are instructed in the rudiments of Christian doctrine by oth- my new Mission was very costly, much more than I expected; but you know, Sir, that all the money you gave ers who already are Christians and live close to them, and then they are to be solemnly baptized in the church. I can- me, was sent to your hands expressly for me, and that it came from my relations and friends with- not express with what heartfelt joyful and grateful feeling I baptize newly converted pagans, especially when several out any prejudice to the Vienna Society, as Mr. Lichtenberg assured me repeatedly. Although I appear at one time for baptism. One day I baptized seven, and on July 12, O Happy, never-to-be-forgotten day! I have a strong right to some portion of the money that the Vienna Society, sent over for the baptized eleven non-Christians at one time. support of our Missions, being the first Missionary sent by this Society, and furnishing to the Our church, the schoolhouse and my house are all of wood, roofed with tree bark. All of this the Indians have made themselves; one can imagine how it looks. When it rains I must spread out my overcoat over my table on which same continually materials for publication; still I don’t ask for support out of the money of the I have my books and papers, in order to protect them from an inundation; over my bed I spread my umbrella, and I Society, but pray only to send me without delay the amount that will soon arrive save myself, as well as I can, in a corner of my small room where it drips the least; nevertheless, I am happier in my to your hands, expressly destined for me. little room than all the emperors and kings in their glittering gold palaces. Our church is rather roomy; it could Mrs. Abbott wrote to Mrs. Fisher, that you will pay me the price of two (or accommodate 400 persons; but I hope that it will soon be too small for us. Besides this church I have two affiliates more) of the beautiful pictures that I left at Mackinaw. I gave the commission in my mission district which I frequently visit. One of these is very noteworthy; it is not only roofed with tree bark to a Canadian who started for Detroit, to bring me the money. He is not yet but also the four walls are made of nothing else but large barks from trees. come back; I don’t know whether he received it from you, or not. The language of the Indians is extremely difficult and irregular. I am studying it very diligently, and I am com- My Dear Sir! I am here in a very unpleasant and hard situation indeed, posing for myself, with the help of my interpreter, a grammar and a dictionary which I learn by heart as I go along. but still am determined to live forever with the Indians, when it is the will I am also working on a catechism in the language of the Indians; and the Rt. Rev. Bishop Fenwick has firmly prom- of God and your will, and when no other Missionary should supply me in ised me that he will have this work printed in Cincinnati. In this catechism will also come all the necessary prayers this place; because I have pity on the poor Indians, who would soon become and songs, so that at the same time is will also be a prayerbook. non-Christians when they were destitute of Missionaries. Arbre Croche, on August 22, 1831. With much affection, Right Reverend Bishop! Your obedient servant and sincere friend Frederic Baraga, Missioner Frederick Baraga, Missionary. Remark: The forwarding of this letter has been somewhat delayed because of the lack of an opportunity. During this Grand River Rapids, time again fourteen Indians, (among whom are only 3 small children, the rest are all adults,) received the holy sacra- Oct. the 4th, 1834. First Indian Chapel at the Rapids of the Grand ment of Baptism, so that I already have 86 in my Baptismal register. And I still have very many catechumens who River, situated on the west side of the river, in the railroad yards between Watson and are preparing for the reception of the holy baptism; and so I hope, with God’s help, to see soon again a consider- (Editor’s Note: It is believed that the able number of lost sheep enter into the fold of the Good Shepherd. Butterworth Streets, east of Lexington Avenue. “beautiful pictures” were Mateus Langus paintings.) Dedicated April 20, 1834