Bishop Baraga Association NON-PROFIT Quarterly Publication of the Baraga Association ORGANIZATION Executive Director: Rev. Ben Paris c/o Diocese of Marquette U.S. POSTAGE e-mail: [email protected] PAID  347 Rock Street PERMIT #157 Vol. 65, No. 1 Winter 2013 Marquette, MI 49855-4725 Marquette, MI 49855

347 Rock St.  Marquette, MI 49855  (906) 227-9117 Editor/Associate Director: Lenora McKeen email: [email protected]

Venerable Frederic Baraga, pray for us!”

Inside This Issue:

Director’s Message ...... 2

The Lady Elgin ...... 3

Curtis Chambers ...... 6

Visit our website at fredericbaraga.org! Association Financial . . . 7 Lives Touched by Bishop Baraga From Yul Yost ...... 8 Michael Finnegan was very close to Bishop Baraga. He frequently traveled with him. Baraga Cross ...... 9 In 1858 Bishop Baraga came to Houghton for the first administration of Confirmation. Baraga documented in his diary, "preached English and French and confirmed 12. I Ahead to Duluth ...... 11 appointed Michael Finnegan as a collector for the new church there, and I myself signed up for $20." Mr. Finnegan collected $630 for the construction of the new church. Association News ...... 13 Groundbreaking was held in the spring of 1859 under the supervision of Michael Finnegan and Michael Foley. The Bishop dedicated the church on July 31, 1859, the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola. (Information provided to the Association by Marie Cerroni, the Great-Great-granddaughter of Michael Finnegan). M p h o t o

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The Baraga Bulletin (ISSN 1047-5044) is published by The Bishop Baraga Association 347 Rock Street Marquette, MI 49855  906-227-9117 Archbishop-Designate ATlexanhdera K.n Samkpl e Yfor youor du edication & commitment www.fredericbaraga.org 1859 Sanctuary - St. Ignatius Church, Portage Lake (now Houghton, MI) Visits by Appointment to the Diocese of Marquette & the Bishop Baraga Association. God Bless You. Pride Printing & Mailing Services of Marquette 2 - The Baraga Bulletin — Winter 2013 Winter 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 15

Dear Brothers and SAiste rMs in eCshrsisat: ge From Our Executive Director Help Support the Cause! We are making significant strides towards the building of the new Cathedral Crypt for our saintly Bishop Baraga! Membership Information Shipping/Handling Charges On March 26 of this year we will have the groundbreaking ceremony and sometime this fall it should be completed. Total Amount of Order . . . Shipping Charge This is wonderful for all of us who are involved in the cause of Bishop Baraga because it truly signifies the proverbial Membership entitles you to receive the “light at the end of a long tunnel.” Did you ever hear or use that phrase? To me it was the culmination of my work quarterly publication The Baraga Bulletin Up to $25.00 ...... $5.00 (usually studying for a test in the seminary) and this is what is happening for us. The ‘light’ if you will is a result of Up to $50.00 ...... $7.00 Annual Gift ...... $20.00 much work and much prayer. We are gearing up for our Bishop Baraga Days in October. In fact, a group of us will Over $50.00 ...... $10.00 be heading to Duluth to discuss the fine points in March. Len McKeen is also going to Holiday, Florida this month to share good news with the folks down there. We’re on the move! Just like Bishop Baraga, we are committed and work diligently because he was and continues to be our inspiration. God bless you… The Apostle of the Chippewas (soft cover) M. . .e .r . c. h. . a. .n . d. .i s. .e ...... $10.00 Sincerely in Jesus and Mary, Diary of Bishop Baraga (soft cover) ...... $20.00 Baraga Dictionary of the Ojibway Language (soft cover) ...... $24.95 Short History of North American Indians by Baraga (soft cover) ...... $34.95 Rev. Benedetto J. J. Paris Life and Labors of Rt. Rev. Baraga by Fr. Verwyst (soft cover) ...... $22.00 Executive Director, Bishop Baraga Association T-Shirts 100% Cotton (M, L, XL, XXL) ...... $12.50 Coffee Mugs ...... $6.00 Marble Based Paperweight (engravable) ...... $10.00 Dear Members, From the Editor… By Cross and Anchor (soft cover) ...... $15.00 I hope this Bulletin finds you all doing well. We have almost made it through another winter in the UP. God cer - tainly provided us with many opportunities to reflect on the dedication and devotion of Bishop Baraga. As tempera - History of the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie & Marquette (3 vol. hard cover) ...... $20.00 tures reached -20 degrees and we all complained about the cold, I often times found myself thinking about Bishop Misc. Baraga Notecards, including 1984 USPS Postcard ...... $1.50 Baraga. Wondering what resources he would use to stay warm or was his determination and love of God enough. As Baraga County Beautiful & Blessed License Plate ...... $6.50 we know he certainly would not allow the frigid temperatures to stop him from reaching his people. No matter how Christmas Ornaments ...... $10.00 great the challenge, he always persevered. What about you? Have you embraced the challenges that God has hand - ed you with passion and zeal as Baraga did? How can we incorporate the values and devotion in our own life that NEW!! NEW!! Description Quantity Cost Each Total God’s Faithful Servant so valiantly demonstrated? BY CROSS & A NCHOR As Spring is about to dawn in the UP, there are many exciting happenings. Here is a peek at a few things hap - $15.00 (soft cover) pening at the Association: X = • I will be in Florida to celebrate Baraga Days on February 23rd. X = • We are planning for Baraga Days 2013 which will be hosted in Duluth. X • We are in the midst of a membership drive. = • A raffle for a 1993 40th Anniversary Corvette is beginning soon. X = Sending support for the cause: Sub Total = • and last but the most EXCITING….Groundbreaking for the Chapel is March 26th!! As you can see we are working hard to promote the Cause of our Beloved Bishop Baraga. Which brings me to a For prayer request of Shipping (see chart) = bit of sad news. As I am sure most of you know by now, our amazing Bishop Alexander K. Sample has been select - In Thanksgiving for Membership = ed as the Archbishop of Portland, Oregon. His installation will be April 2nd. Until that time he will continue to admin - HISTORY OF THE istrate the Diocese of Marquette. My heart is heavy with sadness that our Good Shepherd is leaving his flock to tend DIOCESE OF SAULT STE . In Memory of Total: (U.S. Funds) = MARIE & M ARQUETTE to others. Archbishop Designate Sample has been such a wonderful leader and teacher to us, like his predecessor, $20.00 (3 volume Please ship order to: Bishop Baraga, he has given us the tools to grow in our faith and it is time for him to move on to plant those seeds in hardcover) others, while we stay and cultivate what we were taught. Baraga knew the importance of passing on the faith to any - Name one he could touch. So Archbishop Sample will have the opportunity to reach out to the good people of Portland. Street We have talked at length about the need to promote Baraga’s cause for canonization on a wider geographic area. We have made an important step forward, as we reach out to the people of Minnesota and educate them about the City State Zip heroic virtue of Frederic Baraga. Now Archbishop Sample will be able to help us reach an even broader geographic Ì Check here if gift, send to: area by sharing his love of Bishop Baraga with the good people of the west coast. Although we may be a bit sad of the loss of Bishop Sample, we know that this too is part of God’s plan in the canonization process of Bishop Baraga. Card acknowledgement sent by the Bishop Baraga Association to the recipient should read: Please keep these two dedicated, devoted servants in your prayers. God Bless, Send to: Bishop Baraga Association, 347 Rock, Marquette, MI 49855 Len 14 - The Baraga Bulletin — Winter 2013 Winter 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 3

Association News A Saintly Bishop and a Steamship Named for a Lady: SUPPORT FROM INDIVIDUALS Linda Kueber; Mr. & Mrs. Jack CRYPT MASS Jennie Antloga; Karen Blackmore; Kujala; Robert Lawrence; William Crypt Mass will be held at 12:10pm Bishop Baraga and the Lady Elgin 1856-1860 Mr. Roger B. Carlson; Mrs. Sandra Lawrence; Andrew & Anie Leroux; on the following Mondays: Detailed model of Lady Elgin Goudreau; Amalija Klepec; Ivanka Charles T. Lilliquist; Betty Lundin; April 15th by John Terras and on display Matic; Fr. Raymond Moncher (for Most Rev. David J. Malloy; Beatrice May 20th at the Grosse Point Lighthouse the Baraga House); Mr. & Mrs. Matt Marana; Pauline Marmalick; Jerry & June 17th in Evanston, IL Nikkari; Mr. & Mrs. Mario Percic; Angie Mazurek; Bev Moe; Dolores Prestay; Anna Plosinjak; Catherine Morois; Ann T. Nelson; Moving? Please let us know so Diane Richard; Louise Rose; Mr. & Tom & Pat Niksich; Lynette we can update our records! Mrs. Peter Staudohar; Joan Yager Outwater; Heddy Pearson; Virginia We extend a special thank you to all Penokie: Tim & Fae Presley; that have written to inform us of GROUP DONATIONS Christine Printz; Ron Provost; Helen deaths and changes of address. Minnesota Historical Society; Raspor; Bonnie Revolt; Cathy Please if we have your name mis - Wisconsin Historical Society; Schmidt; Walt & Gertie Servia; spelled or you know of anyone not Singing Slovenes (a percentage from Frances Sharland; Frank Stupak; receiving the newsletter that should CD sales) Peggy Susewitz; Daniel & Andrea be receiving it, let us know! A gen - Tisch; Valeda Tomasi; The Antonia tle reminder - the post office does NEW BISHOP Valella Family; Francine Valenti; not forward 3rd class mail. If you BARAGA MEMBERS Rev. Larry VanDamme; William & have a winter address please let us EBSCO Industries, INC.; St. Joseph Leola Wiltzius; know so we can ensure you receive Parish – Perkins; Yvonne Bafile ; your newsletters. Dale Bemis; Mr. & Mrs. Ernest NEW YOUTH MEMBERS CORRECTION NOTE Beauchamp; Barbara Beaulieu; Alexa Axtell; LiAnna Baxter; Isaac The Bishop Baraga Days 2012 pho - Mary M. Bender; Mr. P. Andrew Beauchaine; Maria Bieberitz; tos from the last Fall 2012 issue Blake; Betty Caron; Marie Cerroni; William RR. Dupras; Emmett were by Tom Buchkoe. Mrs. Cecilia Chie; Marian Chron; Gillett; Raynee Gillett; Spencer Mary Lou Clement; Matt & Jennifer Hipke; Mattison Iery; Jada Johnson; In all the annals of Lake Superior and Lake after stops at most of Baraga’s much visited ports Cretens; William Darnell; Barbara Madison Lakosky; Jakob Margetta; shipping, no wreck was more horrific and where he had missions that he visited on his annual GA. Dupras; Justin F. Dupras; Katie Mielke; Ava Beth Outwater; heart tearing than the one which Bishop Baraga Episcopal visitations. His string of missions was about referred to in his diary on September 12, 1860 “The 400 miles; she traveled about 2000 miles on every Nickolas D. Dupras; Jacklynn Hunter Penokie; Emily Sandahl; ‘Lady Elgin’ is lost, more than 300 human lives.” The round trip. Enders; Kim & Pam Erickson; Mary Shawn Sandahl; Erin Schuettpelz; Lady Elgin had been very special to him. He had Her main role was as a passenger vessel, but she Ellis; Kathy Flagel; Chuck Deanna Shepeck; Joel Sommerfeld; sailed aboard her at least seven times that he recorded also carried the mail and any freight that could be & Shelley Gervasio; Jenevieve in the diary and he had known her captain since his unloaded or loaded quickly during very short calls in Gillett; Betty Glanville; Sandy JOIN THE BISHOP BARAGA days at LaPointe or L’Anse. Four or five days before port, like package freight and even cattle, doing so Hanson; Paul & Kathy Harvey; BIRTHDAY CLUB her loss, he had waved goodbye to her after stepping very reliably on a rigid time schedule, running round Richard Haeusler; Paul Healey; Do you or anyone you know share off her deck in Marquette following an overnight voy - the clock. Donald & Dorothy Henderson; the birthday of June 29th with age from the Keweenaw. The news of her loss When the Church declared Frederic Baraga vener - Diana Hennigar; Charles H. Bishop Baraga? reached him just three days later—there was no tele - able in May, 2012, she was declaring that he had lived Hinman Jr.; Roger & Nancy Irie; For years, lifetime member, June graph; so news like that was borne on other ships days a life of heroic virtue. Ken & Nora Izzard; Mr. James Isola; Burich, has promoted the life of later. In Bishop Baraga’s case, the priestly career path Rev. Michael Jacobus; Michelle Bishop Baraga. Please write to her He had gotten off on the morning of September that he chose was unusual because not only did virtue Jankoviak; Carrol & Rosemary if you or someone special shares the 4th, and he sent his future Man Friday, Caspar Schulte embrace things like holiness, dedication to duty and Jarvey; Gerald Junak; Larry same Birthday as our beloved on to the Sault. Caspar had been aboard with him eloquence, expected of all priests. His career path Kempany; Gertrude Koller; Mark Bishop. Contact: June Burich, 243 from Eagle Harbor. The Lady was finishing the south - required that he do a tremendous amount of traveling Koppana; John & Michelle Kranjc; Pewabic St, Laurium, MI 49913- bound part of her regular round trip that she made either as a simple missionary or later as diocesan Stan & Linda Kranjc; Robert & 0735. every week or ten days between Chicago and Superior Bishop. Moreover, much of that career path was not 4 - The Baraga Bulletin — Winter 2013 Winter 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 13 on land but on water and demanded virtues that were “greyhounds of the Lakes”) were not major influences out of the ordinary. Like great patience in waiting for on Baraga’s trips aboard these side-wheelers. His pri - Association News long delayed steamboats or riding aboard very pokey ority was reaching his next mission destination aboard ones, willingness to endure stomach wrenching sea - the first available steamboat, luxurious or austere. PRAYER REQUESTS Chartier; Ms. Elaine Christensen; Mc Donald; Mrs. Sally Mellon; Mr. sickness, and exceptional courage when setting out by Baraga’s overnight trip on September 3rd and 4th, K. Dale & Carolyn Anderson for Rev. James E. Connell; Mr. & Mrs. & Mrs. Alvin Menard; Mr. & Mrs. boat whether it was by canoe or mackinaw boat or a 1860 had been his seventh aboard the Lady . His first special intentions for the following Matthew Cretens; Mrs. Kathryn Paul Michelin; Rajko Milavec; Ms. type of vessel that was just coming into prominence as was between Marquette and Sault Ste. Marie in family members: Kevin Anderson, D’Agostino; Louise Demers; Mr. & Cathy Moffat; Mr. & Mrs. John Baraga’s career blossomed, like the propeller driven August, 1857; he next made that trip in both directions Marie Anderson, James Anderson, Mrs. Anthony DePetro Jr.; William Moll; Mrs. Arlynn Morton; Mrs. freight steamers that accepted passengers but ran on during August, 1859, and later that same month he Judy Anderson Greet, Jeanie & Ellen Dubensky; Mrs. Rita Ann Nelson; Rev. Paul Nomellini; schedules based on their freight assignments. The caught her at LaPointe to reach her next port, Anderson; Dubord; Miss Joyce A. Dupey; Mr. Judith Novak; Leonard J. Okoren; Lady Elgin and the North Star together accounted for Ontonagon. Josephine Jurkovic for her health; Robert Dutmer; Mr. & Mrs. Kim Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Pakonen; Miss nearly thirty of his seventy-plus ship jaunts. Stepping On November 27 of that year he passed on the Mr. & Mrs. Aldo Pedranzan for Erickson; Mr. & Mrs. Michael M. Evelyn Pantzar; Stanley J. aboard always meant a journey into the unknown and news (he was good at that) that she had been disabled prayers answered; For John Pryately Fassbender; Dorothy Fletcher; Mr. Pekol; Mr. & Mrs. Steven C. Pelto; risk. The Lady Elgin had been wrecked. The espe - on “Weshki Bay” above the Sault, with a broken by Margaret Pryately; & Mrs. Thomas E. Foye; Albert Rev. Darryl J. Pepin; Mr. & and cially familiar North Star had burned to the waterline “cylinder” as he called it, and the Forrester arrived Galeazzi, Sr.; Mr. & Mrs. Frank Mrs. Robert F. Perkins; Mrs. while in layup during the past winter in Cleveland, with a new part. The relief boat was the last one down IN THANKSGIVING Garczynski; Deacon & Mrs. Charles Kathleen Pesola; James and Rita and that wrecks from storms or collisions or standings through the canal for the year, he added, and that Mary Ann Dominick in honor of Gervasio; Maria Glavac; Scott & Petak; Mr. & Mrs. Edward Piatti; were common even on Lake Superior. During the meant that the Lady Elgin would “have to stay above”. Rudi Knez’s 94th Birthday; For the Renae Godish; Mr. & Mrs. Wilford Mrs. Connie Platske; Mr. Joseph years of Baraga’s episcopate there were between fif - From other sources we know that the trouble was Health of the Pryately Family; From Gonczy; Mr. Franz Gotzel; Rev. Pokryfke; Kathy Rendulich; Ann teen and twenty wrecks or sinkings. some sort of catastrophic failure of the engine or rock - Mary Yutronich; Joseph O. Gouin; Deacon & Mrs. Resnik; Miss Carol Rickaby; Brian The Lady Elgin was a stout steamboat less than ten ing beam, that she was towed to Marquette for repairs Steve Gretzinger; Mr. Victor E. Roebke; Most Rev. Robert J. Rose; years old. Like her contemporaries she was wooden and that some help came from the shops of the iron IN MEMORY Groos; Mrs. Rosemary Haepers; Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Ross; hulled and because wooden hulls could sag beneath ore railroad there. Her captain, Jack Wilson, mean - For memorial anniversary of Rose John Hainrihar; Most Rev. Donald Gruskovnjak Rozina; Mrs. the heavy boilers and steam engines amid ships, she while had to make his way overland south to Luzar by Rose Duh. A Christmas F. Hanchon; Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Margaret Rule; Frank Schirtzinger; and her peers had unattractive crown arches that arose Wisconsin; Wilson was aboard when she was lost the Memorial for the deceased mem - Hantz; Miss Marie C. Hilgers; Mr. & Mrs. Andy Schumer; Mr. from either end and towered above the upper deck; next autumn. bers of The Barle & Svete families Joseph V. Hocevar; Dr. & Mrs. Alosia Sever; Matilda Simcic; Most these stiffened her to prevent sagging. Two boilers fed The year 1860 brought the bishop’s last three trips by Martha Svete Springer; In mem - Frederick Hoenke; Mr. Patrick Rev. Richard J. Sklba; Mr. & Mrs. steam to a huge one cylinder engine that turned the on her, and the most interesting account of any about ory of Dec. of Ostoska & the Hogan; Dr. & Mrs. Scott Jamieson; Stan Slobodnik; Mrs. Maria Sossi; thirty foot paddlewheels on each side encased in elab - her was his report on his season-opening trip at the Pryately Families; In memory of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Jurkovich; C. Mr. & Mrs. Fred St. John; Mrs. orately decorated paddle boxes (enclosures to control end of April, when he was anxious to get a new Katherine Kramar by Dorothy Fred & Margaret Kekko; Thomas M. Angelo St. Juliana; Mr. & Mrs. Jere splashing). teacher settled at the mission reached via the Portage Christian; Kelly & Julie A. Kelly; Mr. & Mrs. Stafford; Ron Steffel; Mr. & Mrs. She was 252 feet long and her main deck was set lake stop of the ship. He, the teacher and the man’s Larry Kempany; Mr. & Mrs. Mark Stephens; Mr. & Mrs. up for package freight and cattle. Minimum fare pas - family boarded above the locks the night before. CHAPEL PROJECT Marshall Kesler; Mr. & Mrs. Robert Matthew J. Surrell; His Eminence sengers were squeezed in there too. For first class pas - When they awoke there was fresh snow on the Yoopers for Life; Archdiocese of Kimball; Nina Kirkaldy; Rudolph & Edmund Cardinal Szoka; Mr. & sengers, there was a luxurious and spacious lobby on ground, “a nice white beginning of beautiful spring,” Cincinnati; Archdiocese of Gaylord; Victoria Kolaric; Mr. & Mrs. David Mrs. Fred G. Taccolini; Theodore the upper deck for socializing and dining, and there Baraga poetically noted. The next day out though, the Dr. John & Mary Jane Beaumier Koskey; Mr. Donald Koskey; Mrs. Thompson; Mr. & Mrs. George were over sixty small staterooms with sleeping berths vessel encountered dense packed ice and could not Family; Mr. & Mrs. Rich Francka Kramar; Karel Kromar; Dr. Thurner; Mr. & Mrs. Joseph lining the saloon, as it was called; a gracious stairway get through it till, twenty hours later when it opened Aboussleman; Helen Adkisson; K. & Mrs. John Kublin; Ms. Kathy Tibaldo; Mr. & Mrs. George Tinti; led up to it. The passenger clientele included short up and she could proceed westward. Dale Anderson & Carolyn Kudlaty; Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kueber; Janice Tolfa; Ivanka Torkar; Mr. & distance commuters making trips just between neigh - In August he spent several days at LaPointe and Anderson; Charles & Barbara Mr. & Mrs. Jack Kujala: Patricia Mrs. John Trudeau; Judy Trudell; boring ports, which was mainly what the bishop did. also made short local visits to Bayfield and present day Beaulieu III; William Beaune; Mrs. Labadie; Mr. & Mrs. Donald Stanko Vidmar; William & Anna There were also leisure travelers on recreational and Odanah before catching the Lady Elgin to reach LaVerne Bell; Mr. & Mrs. Elwin L. LaCosse; Mr. & Mrs. Ross LaCross; Vincent; Eileen Vuksan; Mr. & sightseeing trips who had read or heard about the Portage Entry the stop for L’Anse, where most major Bell; Mrs. Teresa Belmore; Mrs. Mary Lavoisa; Allen Levine; Slavka Mrs. Wayne Wachter, Mr. & Mrs. beauty of Lake Superior and the marvel of the Soo vessels did not call. Then in early September he and Patricia Blake; Mr. & Mrs. James Levstik; Charles & Mary Loncar; Andrew Wasilewski; Jerry Watson; Locks, like the newspaper editor from New Orleans Schulte took her from Eagle Harbor to Marquette Block; Mr. & Mrs. James Brunelle; Mrs. Noreen MacDonald; Dr. & Mrs. Barbara Weinrick; Mary with his wife, family, and maid, or a British nobleman where Baraga got off while Schulte went on to the Genevieve Buol; Mr. August Mrs. Gordon MacMaster; His Wiitanen; Mrs. Rita Willour; or aristocrat and his young son—these were freshly Sault. Calabro; Jack & Mary Ann Eminence Adam Cardinal Maida; Robert Wright; Mrs. Charla Younk; aboard on her final journey out of Chicago. The steamer had sailed on to Milwaukee and Campbell; Mr. & Mrs. Eldon Mrs. Orazem Mary; Paula Mavec; Alojzij Zabjek; Kari & Ann Zajec; Her amenities and those of the similar North Star Chicago, delayed almost a day by fog down the lake. Carlson; Danica Cesnik; Mr. & Mrs. Deacon & Mrs. Thomas Rev. Daniel S. Zaloga; Agata (“palace steamers” they were sometimes called, or The group from Milwaukee was a restless group of the Dave Charland; Mr. & Mrs. Edward McClelland; Mr. & Mrs. Donald Zoldos; Rudy Zornik 12 - The Baraga Bulletin — Winter 2013 Winter 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 5 few miles north of what is now Harbor Springs. Fr. Pirc some point the church can regain that property and turn it flower of Milwaukee’s young Irish men and families gers and crew, and even listed every single casualty would go on to spend over 12 years ministering in this back into a sacred place. Pirc is honored in Minnesota who were waiting to go on a day-long fun trip to and survivor (92 of them) by name. area. He introduced european farming to the Indians. with a statue outside a Catholic Hospital in St. Cloud and Chicago, with the side purpose of raising funds to pur - Many of the crew were familiar to Bishop Baraga, He bought property for the Indians for religious structures both a town and a lake named in his honor. chase arms for the groups’ role as a militia organiza - probably none more so than Captain Jack Wilson, the as well as farming fields. The outlines of these field are still Slovenians continued to pour into Minnesota for the tion. valiant skipper who went down with his charge. He visible in the area of Good Hart. You can walk the ceme - next fifty years and they concentrated at first in the area While they partied in Chicago, the dock crew in was one of the first to sail through the brand new Soo tery he began next to the Church in Good Hart and attend around Stearns County. Monsignor Oman the long time port unloaded the Lady Elgin’s freight and put aboard Locks on the opening day in June 1855. He had been mass during summer at the church which stands in the beloved of the Slovenian parish of St. Lawrence on same place as the original church. At the Church of the the south side of Cleveland called Newburg is from that new cargo, including 150 head of cattle penned the captain of sailing craft on the lake even before Divine Infant Jesus in Harbor Springs which was one of his area and is buried there along with his family members. aboard the main deck. Her new passengers began to when he and the missionary father had probably got - mission churches, they still have candle holders and a Monsignor Oman opened his rectory to Bishop Rozman board and the excursionists began to straggle back, ten to know each other at LaPointe. Monstrance that were purchased in Laibach in the early when the Bishop emigrated to the USA in the late 1940's tired but happy, and energetic enough to begin danc - Thus, however, ended the fascinating and up till 1950's. The Knights of Columbus branch in Harbor Springs when other parishes would not take him. Monsignor ing in the saloon upstairs. Many of the young men in now, apparently un-noted tie between a lovely but is named in his honor. His memory is still honored by the Oman became a trusted friend of Skof Rozman. There is the excursion group had to be at work in Milwaukee doomed steamship and the venerable and austere Native Americans who are mostly Ottawa in that area. In another connection between Skof Rozman and Minnesota. the next morning and they pressured Captain Jack patron/bishop with whom she shared his journey the middle 1850's, Pirc shifted permanently to Minnesota When Skof Rozman died, he was buried with the mitre of Wilson to set sail even though the skies looked threat - toward sainthood. with Baraga's permission. He had served there earlier in Bishop Trobec of St. Cloud. ening. An hour out of Chicago and about even with his ministry and the area around Harbor Springs, MI. He Upper Minnesota has a connection to Slovenian Priests some of the Chicago suburbs, like Evanston, the skies Michael Dunn is a Lifetime member of the Bishop was replaced by another Slovenian priest. Fr. Lovrenc from the Carinthian area (Koroska) in the period after exploded with slashing rain while the winds worked Baraga Association living in suburban Milwaukee; he Lavtrzar. Fr. Pirc rejuvenated the Indian missions at Fond World War I. Many Slovenian clergy in what is now the surface into a froth, and the skies became even is a retired college teacher. du Lac but then moved to provide a Catholic presence at Austria campaigned for people to vote for annexation to darker. Crow Village which was a major settlement for the Yugloslavija. Skof Rozman was one of them. Many were Ojibway. He became concerned about the protestant forced to leave the newly created Austria. Rozman found a In that darkness and rain an overloaded lumber influx into Minnesota so he joined Baraga in writing in permanent assignment as a professor in the School of schooner, the Augusta , riding very low in the water German publications both in Cincinnati (which had one of Theology in Ljubljana. Other priests fled to America and and carrying very little light so that her young captain Bishop Baraga Chapel the largest settlement of Germans in the USA) as well as in were taken into dioceses such as Duluth and St. Cloud and the deckhouse crew of the Lady Elgin didn’t spy Groundbreaking Europe. He also wrote to Slovenian source. In both lan - which had large numbers of Slovenian immigrants and not the other vessel till the schooner sliced right into the guages he wrote encouraging settlers and his writing enough priests to minister to them. These priests kept the steamboat amidships, right near the paddlewheel. On Tuesday, March 26, 2013, Most Rev. attracted significant numbers of Slovenians to what is now Slovenian communities alive well past World War II. While the schooner sailed blithely on to the safety of Alexander K. Sample Archbishop-designate of the diocese of St. Cloud as well as further north the Iron The Slovenian community in Duluth has already Chicago, the huge gash in the steamer’s side allowed Portland, Oregon will host a Groundbreaking Ore range. He instigated the invitation of the Benedicine engaged the Diocese and the Bishop Baraga Association in water to gush in, tilting the boat on to a slant, putting Ceremony for the construction of the Bishop Baraga Order to send priests from their monastery in Latrobe, PA. Marquette in preparing for the Bishop Baraga Pilgrimage. out the fires in the boilers and thus her lights. Her So the community of German Benedictine monks who One of those who will be active in planning is Fr. Peter passengers were now slipping off the deck into the Chapel in the St. Peter Cathedral Courtyard founded St. John's University and then Benedictine nuns Muhich, the of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the lake or being tossed from a little higher up. Some Marquette, Michigan who founded St. Scholastica in Duluth are beholden to his Holy Rosary who comes from a KSKJ family on the were desperately leaping into the water or were push to invite these men and women to take over missions "Range". This is a unique faith community. They have sto - trapped within the hull or upper spaces as she slipped he had started. Joining Pirc in Minnesota were men such ries in their family about the famous Slovenian missionar - Leaflets & Prayer Cards as Trobec who eventually became the bishop of St Cloud, ies who worked among the Ojibway Indians but also min - beneath the surface in mere minutes. Some managed Stariha who eventually became a bishop in North Dakota istered to their Slovenian brothers. The community as a to grab onto debris in the aftermath, but the few who Available for the Asking and Buh who became the chancellor of Duluth when it whole is very respectful of Baraga and the missionaries managed still to maintain their hold faced even anoth - The purpose of the Bishop Baraga Association is to was founded as its own diocese., Pirc himself is considered who ministered in their area. Last year, Bishop Sirba of er risk if they reached shore. The area was mostly promote the cause for canonizing Bishop Frederic the founder of the diocese of St. Cloud. Fr. Lavtizar fol - Duluth traveled to Cross River to bless a Cross that bluffs, and many potential survivors were driven into Baraga as a Saint and to make the example of his love lowed Pirc to Minnesota and died walking in the dead of replaced an old monument marking the spot where Baraga the bluffs by the waves, causing their death. Morning of God and service of his neighbor known to all peo - winter between the Crow Wing and Red Wing nearly lost his life on the north shore of Lake Superior. A revealed some of the aftermath and searching went on Reservations. Pirc buried him at Crow Wing and years story about that event appeared recently in the SUA publi - for days for bodies. Milwaukee’s young Irish popula - ple. Please pray for his Cause for Sainthood. later, Fr. Lavtizar's remains were reburied in a cemetery for cation Zarja. tion, so promising a few days before, was nearly dec - priests in Duluth. Pirc went on to serve in Minnesota until Please join us in Duluth and walk the path of Baraga, imated, and funeral masses went on for days. he was 90 years old when finally feeling his age, he Pirc and Buh and any other Slovenians. No other shipwreck on the open waters of Lake Estate Planning returned to Slovenia and lived another four years in failing Please consider including the Bishop Michigan ever took a greater toll in lives than the health. He was buried in St. Vincent cemetery in Janez P. Vidmar Baraga Association in your will or revocable wreck of the Lady Elgin. Baraga was very close, too, Ljubljana. That cemetery was raised in the fighting of Permanent Deacon of the trust. For more detailed information on this in his mention of 300 deaths. Extensive research in WWII. I heard it is now paved over and serves as a park - Slovenian Catholic Mission, Lemont, IL, please contact Terri Gadzinsk i at (906) 227-9108 ing lot. So perhaps the greatest Slovenian missionary next & President of the Illinois chapter recent decades examined all the available records and to Baraga lies in an unknown grave in Ljubljana. I hope at of the Bishop Baraga Association came up with a total of 302 deaths including passen - or email:[email protected] 6 - The Baraga Bulletin — Winter 2013 Winter 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 11

Curtis Chambers – The U.P. Catholic By John Fee Many people are askBinga wrhay Bgaarag aD Daayys sin Duluth luattthrac tOed cGetrombane anrd 6Slo v&eni an7 priests and seminarians to Drawing attention to the cause of canonization of Chambers of his journey communing with nature and this year in a place so far away? My answer is simple. It is follow him into ministry. St. John Nepomucene Neuman, Venerable Frederic Baraga, while highlighting the faith of with God. about time. Over the years, the Bishop Baraga Association the Czech American who became the Bishop of Native American people during the Year of Faith, Curtis Preparing for the walk was a challenge, but has tried to schedule the Bishop Baraga Pilgrimage either Philadelphia, read Baraga's letters and decided to follow Chambers followed in the footsteps of the Snowshoe Chambers believes God called him to do it, and he said, in places that were significant in Baraga's ministry or in him to America to minister to the Indians. He did. He com - Priest, walking from Sault Ste. Marie to Marquette in five “Whatever God asks you to do, he’s going to give you places where there is a significant number of people of pleted his seminary training in the USA and was assigned days. the tools to do it. Every time I thought there was a prob - Slovenian descent. With Duluth, we have the combination to work among the Indians of upstate New York and A member of the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and lem, there was a solution.” He added that he couldn’t of both. Early in his ministerial career, Baraga spent a sig - Pennsylvania. In fact, he almost froze to death traveling Chippewa Indians, and former tribal chairman, have made the journey without the help of many people. nificant amount of time on the western shores of Lake between Indian missions in northern NY but fortunately Chambers said he is concerned about young people Chambers visited the diocesan offices in Marquette at Superior going as far west as what is now Fond du Lac and was found by Indians and nursed back to health. He went going completely around the northern shore Lake Superior on to become one of the great Church leaders of the 19th leaving the Church, especially Native Americans. He the conclusion of his journey, and Archbishop to Grand Portage and beyond into Canada ministering to century. Reading Fr. Baraga's reports from America at said he hopes the walk not only “demonstrates my love Alexander Sample (now archbishop-designate of the Ojibway Indians. His sister spent time with him on about the same time as John Nepomucene Neumann was and faith in my Lord, Jesus Christ,” but encourages oth - Portland in Oregon) told him, “It’s a great witness to the Madeleine Island hoping to acclimate herself to the harsh a priest already in his 40's, Fr. Franc Pirc (often spelled by ers to draw closer to the Church. By emulating the treks history (of the area served by Venerable Baraga), to our weather of the upper midwest without success. Baraga's Americans as Pierz) who was the pastor in Pod Brexje, of Venerable Bishop Frederic Baraga, he was also able to faith, and to the contributions of Bishop Baraga, and to missions generated little or no money and for many years, Slovenia. Fr. Pirc was the first of 19 Slovenian men who demonstrate that the Snowshoe Priest’s cause for canon - your native people, as well. To me, it just ties everything he relied on donations from organizations such as the eventually followed Frederick Baraga and served as mis - ization is, “something I believe in completely.” together in the Year of Faith. It’s an incredible pilgrim - Leopoldine Society to provide him with enough funds to sionaries across the UP of Michigan, the upper part of Being Native American, highlights of his pilgrimage age.” minister and build simple churches. He wrote in both Wisconsin and the Ojibway missions of eastern Minnesota. include its beginning on Monday morning, Feb. 4, 2013, As of press time, Chambers, a parishioner of St. German and Slovenian. His writing in both languages Baraga put Pirc at first in Arbre Croche, Michigan just a with breakfast at the Cultural Center for the Sault Tribe of Mary-St. Charles Parish in Cheboygan in the Diocese of Chippewa Indians. 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The reason for this discrepancy is not clear. 1855, he observed that a larger and more substantial Possibly Whittlesey's date (1843) in the 1856 newspaper cross had been erected by a merchant fur trader "on a Thanks to the geneFrosiitny oaf noucr iinaclre dHible aBilshtohp omfa itlihnge o fA thse sBoulcleitian.t iTohen Association’s expenses article is a typesetting error, or Whittlesey may have mis - higher rock" than the original cross. This suggests that the Baraga supporters, the Association has a strong finan - run about $15,000 a year to produce and deliver this taken a "3" for what was actually a "6," as he does say that cross Whittlesey saw in 1848 was located on a lower ele - cial foundation. This strength comes from the incred - publication. the penciled inscription was "scarcely readable." vation site and possibly closer to the actual place of land - ible gifts of our members and the constant monitor - The Bulletin serves as an invaluable educational On the other hand, the original source for the gener - ing. From Kohl one might also conclude that the original ing and cutting of costs where appropriate. and promotional tool. We do not want to sacrifice ally accepted 1846 date appears to be Father Verwyst's cross stood only for a few years before being replaced by Following are some of the essential financial numbers quality to reduce this cost, so we look for more effec - Life and Labors of the Rt. Rev. Frederic Baraga (1900). In 1855. for 2012: tive cost savings means such as emailing bulletins to that work, Verwyst states that it was "highly probable" As to memento pieces of the cross, Father Verwyst members. Association Revenue $111,514 that the trip was made in the fall of 1846. That wording states in his 1896 biographical essay on Bishop Baraga It is the Associations intent and commitment to Including investments, bequests & donations, suggests that Father Verwyst himself was not entirely con - (Michigan Pioneer Collections vol. 26), that Vincent Roy promote Bishop Baraga’s cause for Sainthood with Memberships, and merchandise sales. fident of the date, but based his conclusion on a trip that of Superior, Wisconsin, had given him a "fragment" of the the same zeal and fervor that Baraga used to teach Father Baraga is known to have made that year to Grand original cross a "few" years earlier. Possibly that fragment others about Jesus Christ. Portage. Since Whittlesey did not record the cross inscrip - once in the possession of Father Verwyst remains to be Program Expenses $ 69,829 Including payroll, bulletin publications, We appreciate the commitment that each of our tion until 1848, either year—1843 or 1846—may possi - found in some collection or archive. For it seems unlike - members has made to share with others, the love and bly be correct until one or the other receives conclusive ly that such an important relic would have been lost or Mailings, promotional & educational material, heroic virtues of God’s Faithful Servant, Venerable supporting evidence. This matter of conflicting dates is an discarded by a fellow priest, especially one who was also Crypt maintenance and Rome expenses. Frederic Baraga. interesting problem for scholars and provides an oppor - a major biographer of Bishop Baraga. Net Income $41,685 tunity to further research this time-honored event in In 1932 when the present granite cross was dedicat - God Bless all of you, Bishop Baraga's missionary work on Lake Superior. ed, the Duluth News-Tribune (April 7, 1932), reported One of our largest expenditures is the printing and Lenora McKeen In the same article Whittlesey provides additional that: "For many years the Christian Chippewas kept a information concerning the lake journey or traverse itself: wooden cross on the same site to honor the memory of "The next time I saw Father Baraga I spoke of this inscrip - Father Baraga." That same year an Associated Press arti - tion and the wooden cross. He said the danger was not cle (Helena, Montana, Independent , September 10, Journey Towards Sainthood, a Timeline… very great until they attempted to land, when his Indians 1932), added that the first "crude wooden cross" stood became alarmed at the sight of the shore lashed by foam - until it was blown down in a storm. This, however, may ing seas, through which they could discover no quiet have been a confusion with a later wooden cross and not nooks or even a beach of sand. They toiled along the the original one. In her 1944 book Lake Superior , histo - coast to discover a less hazardous landing, without suc - rian Grace Lee Nute states that "many" wooden crosses cess; and knowing that night must soon envelop them, followed the first one. This seems likely considering the they steered to look for a small creek. It was here the cross long time span involved (1840s-1932), the site's expo - stood, and in my memoranda I called it Baraga's river." sure to the elements, and a history of memento pieces The plural reference to "Indians" in this passage sug - being removed from the cross. gests that more than one mixed blood or metis person From the sparse documentation available, it appears may have accompanied Father Baraga during the lake that Bishop Baraga himself did not seek to publicize or crossing. If correct, this could resolve an otherwise puz - exalt this event in his missionary work on Lake Superior. zling contradiction found in the two most detailed writ - That was left for others to do years or decades later, and ten accounts of the trip in which two different voyageurs which may help explain the varying details found in these or boatmen are named. In Kitchi-Gami, Life Among the later accounts. Such a modest approach to hazards con - Lake Superior Ojibway (1860), author Johann Georg fronted and endured was only natural for this self-effac - Kohl states that the missionary's companion was a man ing and tireless priest. It may also have given him a spe - by the name of Dubois, while Father Verwyst (1896 & cial mystique among the native people who were the 1900), names him as Louis Gaudin. Whittlesey's use of focus of his missionary work. Traditional tribal belief held the plural form raises the possibility that both of these that Lake Superior was both a source of great danger but accounts may be correct, and that two men may have also possessed characteristics of a divinity. The theologi - accompanied Father Baraga during this lake journey. cal implications of this aspect of Bishop Baraga's mission Sequence of Crosses & Souvenir Pieces to the Indians is something I hope to further research and In his article, Yul Yost wondered when the original explore. wooden cross was taken down and if any souvenir pieces Herbert Wagner is a historian and writer from Minong, may still exist. Here too a few more details can be added Wisconsin. His maternal great-grandfather, Phillip Zirbes, to the subject. was a founder of St. Mary's in Racine, WI. 8 - The Baraga Bulletin — Winter 2013 Winter 2013 — The Baraga Bulletin - 9

Remembering Bishop Baraga More about Father Baraga's Cross on the Slovenians in Minnesota make efforts to keep the son" to borrow the term as used in GeorgeB yO Yrwule Ylloiasn t name of the Slovenian missionary Frederic Baraga Newspeak. Frederic Baraga was the greatest mind that North Shore of Lake Superior From my own research files gathered over the years, Apostle group, lying between us bayn dH tehreb esortu tWh acgonaestr , from oblivion. To this effect the Branch 109 of the left Slovenian lands. So, the Slovenian historians please allow me to contribute more to Yul Yost's excellent appeared dimly as hazy spots on the surface of the Slovenian Union of America (SUA) in September, could portray him either as a Catholic missionary or article, "Chronicle of the Father Baraga Cross on the water." 2012, held a gathering at the newly landscaped Father else in secular terms as a linguistic genius. But too Shores of Lake Superior" (Spring 2012). This information Cross Inscription Baraga Cross site on the North Shore of Lake Superior- often neither has happened. The ideologue of the includes a first-hand description of Father Baraga's cross It was from those "hazy spots" across western Lake the Baraga Cross Rendezvous, see below pictures. The wretched, ungodly Tito's regime, Slovenian Edward and the message of thanks inscribed upon it as observed Superior that Father Baraga and his guide(s) had come in Rendezvous was concluded by a quartette singing in Kardelj simply does not mention Frederic Baraga in his by a visitor in the year 1848. This simple cross was a small boat. This was a journey of great hazard to which Ojibwe a hymn known with French title: "Bel astre que 1957 treatise on Slovenia. (see Baragov Simpozij v improvised at the mouth of Cross River near modern Charles Whittlesey would now attest. For after carving j'adore" . It is one of 68 hymns published by Frederic Rimu, 1999,p.213; Rome). In Ljubljana there is a Schroeder, Minnesota, to commemorate a safe landing their names and the date (July 15, 1848) upon a pine tree Baraga in 1837 in the Ojibwe prayer book titled: building from before WWII that is still known as after Father Baraga's hazardous journey from the Apostle in order to mark their visit, the geologist and his men Otchipwe Anamie-Masinaigan . Baraga normally Baragovo Semenisce, Baraga's Seminary. After the Islands to the North Shore. A safe arrival made in spite of descended the mountain to the lake shore. At that point wrote suitable lyrics in Ojibwe to known popular war it was used as student housing. In 1950 I lived heavy surf, oncoming darkness, and a steep, rocky coast - in the 1856 article Whittlesey observes: "On our way French melodies. Another event in USA in honor of there as a student. Mind you, I was not to become a line. back to the coast I saw a board nailed to the stump of a Baraga is Baraga Days. It is a two-day event that has priest but hopefully a faithful communist; I was a com - The cross description and message is found in an arti - tree in the form of a cross, at the mouth of a small creek. been staged yearly for decades, most often in Michigan plete failure at that. It was hoped that after the cle published in the Superior Chronicle newspaper The board had an inscription in pencil which was and Wisconsin, but will be celebrated in 2013 for the Slovenian independence in 1991 Frederic Baraga's (Superior, Wisconsin, November 4, 1856, page 2), and scarcely readable, but I made out the following words: first time in Minnesota (in Duluth in September). The name would be revived there. There is a recent attempt is titled, "Two Weeks on the North Shore in 1848." This 'In commemoration of the goodness of Almighty God in Father Baraga Cross is a well-known land mark along to showcase the Baraga's Seminary, but alas, not to article has not been generally recognized by historians, granting to Rev. F.R. Baraga, missionary, a safe passage the Lake Superior, as is his name. The Cross com - honor the missionary/linguist Frederic Baraga, but to nor is it listed in Ceglar's Baragiana Collection-- from La Pointe to this shore, August, 1843.'" memorates Father Baraga's survival of his crossing of give deserved credit to the eminent Slovenian architect Bibliography (vol. 2, 1992). In th at manner Charles Whittlesey described Father Lake Superior in a small boat during a storm in of the building, Joze Plecnik who conceived other Charles Whittlesey's Account of 1848 Baraga's cross and inscription as he saw them in 1848. October, 1846. He had crisscrossed the Great Lakes great works. This is evident from the newsletter that The Superior Chronicle article does not include an This appears to be the earliest known description of the wilderness, an area ten times the size of Slovenia for was published by the Muzeum of Architechture in author's name, but instead is attributed to the original cross yet found. The details about a "board" being nigh 40 years by canoe but mostly on foot or in winter Ljubljana on Dec. 20, 2012. Therein pictured Baraga's "Unpublished Leaves from the Notes of an Eminent "nailed" to a tree "stump" in the form of a cross verifies on snowshoes. He was also called the Snowshoe Seminary is ostensibly named after skof (Bishop) Anton Geologist." This seems to be a reference to Charles information contained in Father Chrysotom Verwyst's Priest. The epicenter of his activity was the Keweenaw Baraga, see below copy from newsletter from the Whittlesey, the well-known scientist, writer, and Civil biographies of Baraga (1896 & 1900), where he states that War veteran from Cleveland, Ohio. From Whittlesey's a small tree was lopped off at the top as high as could be Peninsula (shown above #5 site on the below Museum's website: www.mao.si/dogodek I still known professional duties during the year 1848, along reached and a crosspiece then nailed to it. Whittlesey's Baragaland postcard) that gets yearly an average of 20 believe the seminary was named after Frederic Baraga, with the article's style and contents, he is almost certain - reference to this crosspiece as a "board" suggests that it feet of snow. the missionary. ly the author. was either a piece of sawn lumber carried with them in Frederic Baraga was a In the summer of 1848, Charles Whittlesey led a the boat (as were the nails), or some part of a tree hewn Slovenian Catholic missionary. He group or sub-corps sent to examine the North Shore area upon the spot to serve the purpose of a board. was a linguistic genius who wrote of Minnesota as part of a federal geological survey of the The flat surface of a board was necessary so that well in seven languages. In fact, Chippewa Land District under the supervision of Dr. Father Baraga could express his heart-felt thanks upon the soon after he came to USA in David Dale Owen. That July, in company with four other cross for their safe arrival on the North Shore. Whittlesey 1830, he learned the Ojibwe men, Whittlesey left "Fond du Lac Superior" (modern (a trained observer) specifically remarks that the message Indian language, and then by Superior-Duluth area) and traveled 75 miles down the or inscription was made in pencil. In addition to describ - 1853 he published the Ojibwe coast to Two Island River. From a campsite there, the ing these things in the 1856 article, Whittlesey also states grammar and the Ojibwe-English men observed an isolated "mountain" farther down the that he recorded the information in his field notebook or dictionary, thereby making the shore that the next day they climbed and that Whittlesey "memoranda" for 1848. Possibly this field notebook still spoken Ojibwe a writable lan - named "Carlton's Peak" in honor of another member of exists. If so, it may contain additional details not given in guage. The two books are a the party, Rueben B. Carlton. From the summit they the 1856 newspaper article quoted above, including, gigantic feat. They were reprinted, obtained a splendid view of the lake of which Whittlesey perhaps, more specific information about where the orig - thus are still in use; more at wrote: "Such is the purity of the atmosphere that I could inal cross actually stood. www.bishopbaraga.org. recognize points on the Porcupine Mountains, which Discrepancy of Dates In Slovenia, after May 1945 look down upon the mouth of the Ontonagon. The Baraga scholars may note a point of discrepancy in during Tito's dictatorship, Father Montreal river and the Pewabic ranges, fifty miles distant Whittlesey's account concerning the date of the lake Frederic Baraga was an "unper - across the lake, were distinct; but the low islands of the crossing taken from the inscription ("August, 1843"). This