First published as Life and Labors of the Rt. Rev. Frederic Baraga, this volume has been retypeset and republished.
BISHOP FREDERIC BARAGA was a great apostle to the Native Americans and other peoples of the Upper Great Lakes. Born in Slovenia in 1797, he came to North America in 1830 as a missionary priest. For 37 years he poured himself out in love for people, ministering to them over a vast territory of more than 80,000 square miles of wilderness. He regularly risked his life and endured brutal hardships to care for his flock: braving blizzards and sub-zero temperatures...
First published as Life and Labors of the Rt. Rev. Frederic Baraga, this volume has been retypeset and republished.