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"Minawa dash ki gaganonigonan De- bendjiged gagikwewining. Api enamiad pesindang anamie-gagikwewin, gwaiak Kije-Maniton o pisindawan. Anawi ge- get mekatewikwanaie gagikwe; tibishki dash gagikwe, Jesus Debeniminang ga-iji- gagikwed. Ikito gaie Jesus: 'Kishpin awiia pisindawad gegikwenidjin, nin igo nin pisindog.'
"Ninidjanissidog saiagiinagog, weweni babamitawig mekatewikwanaieg gegik- wedjig; Kije-Manito ki ga-babamitawa- wa. Dassing gaie waiebinigeiegon, we- weni odapinamog minik egoieg iwapi. weweni kakina dodamog, Kije-Manito iwapi ki ganonigowa.
"Always obey God well, my children. He is highly worthy; he has created all things and to him belong all things. Obey him well. Christians are told to obey even those who are living on earth, namely, children to obey their parents, and servants to obey their masters. Far more are we exhorted to obey God, for to him we all belong entirely.
"God always speaks to us in our hearts ; he always tell that we should hate and shun all that is bad, and on the contrary should do only what is good. If a Chris- tian is inclined to do bad, immediately he is told by God in his heart : don't do that, it is bad, thus he will be told by Him. But if a Christian is inclined to do good, immediately he will be requested by God to do the good, It is thus that God always speaks to us in our hearts. Very happy is the Christian who always listens to God speaking to him.
"Again, the Lord speaks to us in ser- mons. When a Christian listens to a ser- mon, he really listens to God. Although really the priest preaches, yet he preaches so as Our Lord Jesus preached. And Jesus says: 'If one listens to him that preaches, he listens to me myself.'
"My children, whom I love, obey well the priest's preaching : God you will obey And as often as you confess, receive well all you are told then, do all well, God speaks to you then.
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Kije-Maniton kakina o tchitchagwang. Kishpin gaie mikwenimad mojag Kije- Maniton, tibishko sa go wabamed, mi dash bekish inendang: Kawin nin wi- matchiikitossi, kawin gaie nin wi-matchi- dodansi, nin nondag sa Debendjiged, nin wabamig gaie, mi aw saiagiad Kije- Maniton kakina od inendamowining. Kishpin dash enamiad apitchi mashka- wendang tchi mino ijiwebisid; apegish mino ijiwebisiian, mojag nendang, bekish gaie geget ojindang maianadak minik eji-gashkitod, mi aw saiagiad Kije-Mani- ton kakina o mashkawisiwining.
"Geget jawendagosi gwaiak saiagiad Kije-Maniton! Mano sa, ninid janissidog, mojag wikwatchitog weweni tchi sagieg. Epitch dash sagieg, meshkwat jinendamog kakina batadowinan. Memindage webin- amog, jingendamog gaie matchi nimikyve- win; apitchi geget manadad. Anotch bata-ikito, bata-dodam gaie awiia ga- giwashkwebidjin. Odjindamog gaie ka- kina bishigwadisiwin, gagibadisiwin. Gossig Kije-Manito, ki wabamigonan sa mojag.
"Ninidjahissidog saiagiinagog, kakina sa go maianadak jingendamog, eji-jin- gendang Debeniminang Kije-Manito: ka- kina dash meno-ijiewbak odapinamog, minwendamog, eji-minwendang Kijie- Manito; ki ga-jawendagosim dash ka- gigekamig Kije-Manito od ogimawining gijigong. Mi ge-ing.
+FREDERIC, Kitchi-Mekatewikwanais."
God, just as if he saw him, and so at the same time thinks : I will not speak ill and I will not do evil, for the Lord hears and sees me, such a one loves God with his whole mind. If a Christian very strongly resolves to live well, if he always thinks: May I live well, and at the same time really avoids what is bad as much as he can, such a one loves God with all his strength.
"He indeed is happy who really loves God! Well now, my children, always endeavor to love God well. But since you love him, hate on the other hand all sins. Especially reject and hate bad drinking; truly it is very bad. When a person is drunk, he talks and does various bad things. Hate also adultery and impurity. Fear God, for he always sees us.
"My children, whom I love, hate all that is bad, as Our Lord God hates it, but accept. love everything that is good, as God likes ; and you will be happy for- ever in the kingdom of God in Heaven. Amen.
* FREDERIC, Bishop (Great Black-gown.)"
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a most honorable reception. Journeying five o'clock he stood in the St. Nicholas' through Germany he visited Aix la Chapelle, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Cassel, Marburg, Frankfort on the Main, Darm- stadt, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg and Munich. In the Bavarian capital he re- mained a few days, enjoying the hospital- ity of the Benedictine Fathers at St. Boni- face Convent. On the 18th of January (1854) arriving at Linz he paid his re- spects to the venerable Bishop Rudiger, and in Vienna was met by his old ač- quaintance, the Very Rev. Bartholomew Widmer, director of the Augustinaeum, afterwards ( 1860) Prince Bishop of Laibach.
In Vienna, naturally, his first visit would be to the most venerable and Most Reverend Prince Archbishop, Vincent Edward Milde, the benefactor of Bishop Baraga, and his missions, and whose name should be written in golden letters in the Annals of all the then existing Dioceses of America, on account of the generous support which they have all received from him and from the Leopoldine Society through him. Before his benefactor, as the head of the Leopoldine Society, which has done unaccountable good and relieved untold sufferings of missionaries in America, Baraga laid bare the needy con- dition of his new charge. the Vicariate Apostolic of Upper Michigan, the to be Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie and Mar- quette. Not in vain, indeed! The mag- nificent gifts, which Baraga carried, re- turning to his diocese more eloquently bespeak the generosity of the donors than we are able to depict with our feeble pen.
Baraga's next visit was to his native land. He arrived in Laibach, January 27th. Early, the following morning, at
Cathedral, at the altar of the Blessed Sac- rament, where thirty one years ago, Sep- tember 22nd, 1823, he offered the first holy Mass. Ovations that would have made any other man drunken with vain glory greeted him everywhere. Baraga re- mained the selfsame poor and humble missionary of Lake Superior. In the parish church at Debernice, where he was baptized, he said holy Mass on the first day of February and "at the baptis- mal font I offered prayers of gratitude for the infinitely great grace of my regenera- tion. June 29th, 1797, in this self same font." 4
He confirmed at Treffen, on Candle- mas, his grand-nephew, Joseph Frederic Gressel. In Metlika-February 5th-and St. Martin-February 12th-where he had been chaplain he pontificated and preached to immense concourses of peo- ple, who came, from near and far, to behold their, at one time, so much be- loved curate.
Now, also, the long cherished op- portunity to visit Rome again, the centre of Christendom, presented itself. Ac- companied by his widowed sister, Amalia, he embarked at Triest on a small boat for Ancona in order to visit the famous Lor- etto shrine on his way to Rome. He ar- rived in Rome on the 21st of February (1854) and was received in audience by Pius IX. on the 27th, and again on the 5th of March. The Holy Father benignantly received the missionary Bishop and ac- cepted the gift of the First Otchipwe Indian Grammar and Dictionary.
Leaving Rome on the 8th of March. Baraga arrived by way of Florence + Diary.
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Bologna, Padua and Venice, again at Laibach, on the 16th of March. During this second sojourn in Carniolia he held Pontifical Highmass and preached on the Feast of St. Joseph in Lack; on the feast of the Patrociny of St. Joseph, March 25th, in the Franciscan church and the following day, in that of St. Peter, in Laibach.
On the 28th of March Bishop Baraga bade adieu to his native land and friends and entered upon his return trip to Ameri- ca. In St. Andreas, Carynthia, he called on the Prince Bishop Anton Martin Slomšek, the Slovenian Goethe, and re- ceived on this occasion two students, the two brothers Roesch, whom he, however, dismissed soon after arriving in New The humility of Bishop Baraga would York, on account of being dissatisfied. . not allow him to wear so precious a pec- During his stay in Gratz he accepted hos- pitality of the Franciscan Fathers; he preached in the Cathedral on the 2nd of April.
He arrived in Vienna on the 4th of April and found again a hospitable home in the Augustinaeum. As much as he desired to depart as soon as possi- ble, the forthcoming marriage of the Emperor to the Bavarian Duchess, Elizabeth, detained him. "They tell me," he writes, "it behooves that a repre- sentative of the American church, which has received so many benefits from Aus- tria, should be present." 5
With the seventy Prelates, Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops, Baraga was also present at their majesties' marriage, in the Augustinian church, April 24, 1854.
On the 27th he was ready to leave the
Austrian capital. He had received pres- ents from all parts of the Empire and had made purchases of such church utensils as he wished to take along.
The Emperor, Francis Joseph I, pre- sented him with a pectoral cross and chain and an episcopal ring set with an amethyst of rare beauty encircled by an oval crown of small diamonds. The stone is engraved with the Holy Name of "Jesus." He also received from the high donor among other things, two chalices. On the inside of the base is the following inscription : Von Sr. K. K. Apostol. Majestaet, Franz Joseph I., Kaiser von Oesterreich-Aus der K. K. Hof und Staats Druckerei in Wien, 1854. Both Chalices are in Roman style.
toral as he had received from the Sove- reign of Austria, as long as the poverty of his missions clamored for the gold and precious stones in it. Pressed for money and prompted by noble impulses he de- cided to part with it. Before selling it, however, he procured a cheap imitation, to preserve the memory of the priceless gift. The ring he retained and all the Bishops of Marquette, in their succession, have worn it. It adorns on festive occa- sions the hand of the present Ordinary.
One chalice is still at the Cathedral us- ually used only on the occasion of a first mass by the Neopresbyters. The other chalice was melted in the Ewen fire, having been given to Father Joisten till the new mission of which he was the first pastor could afford to buy its own chalice.
From Vienna Baraga came to Linz by boat, and from there to Munich, by coach. Here the king, Ludwig, upon his express
6 Letter, to Msgr. Novak.
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retary of the Treasury, Hon. James Guth- rie for a free entry of church goods which he had brought from abroad. Neither pe- tition was granted. With regard to the first he was referred to the Land Agent at the Soo, and for his goods he had to pay an import tax of three hundred and ten dollars .- It seems to have particu- larly pained him to pay the sum of money on the anniversary of his Preconization, June 29th.
He arrived in Detroit August 2nd, and had to wait a whole week, for the arrival of his freight boxes, but if he has idled away any time during one year's absence from his missions, he seems to have been determined to make it up. The activity which he developed in his new diocese, from the moment he first set foot upon Upper Michigan soil, is nothing short of marvelous. For those who take pains to acquaint themselves with the distances of different places the following extract from Baraga's diary must prove interest- ing. Our own notes are in parenthesis.
August 10 (1854). Left Detroit, ar- rived in Mackinac on the IIth.
14. Arrived in LaCroix-said Mass and preached on the 15th.
16. Little Traverse, said Mass and preached on the 17th.
IS. Went to Sheboygan and reached Mackinac at midnight of the 19th.
20. in the evening left Mackinac, ar- rived the following morning, the 21st, in the Soo, where I received a multitude of letters.
25. Today I leave for Lake Superior on the Str. Samuel Ward.
27. At noon came to La Pointe. After- noon I preached and announced Confirm- ation. Every evening during the whole
week, I gave instruction for Confirmation and heard confession.
September 3. Confirmed in La Pointe -almost one hundred.
4. Arrived in Ontonagon. Confirmed twenty persons on the 8th.
18. Came again to the Sault, where I found again a multitude of letters, good and bad.
20. Gave minor orders to Mr. Thiele.
21. Left for L'Anse. Str. A. Slow.
25. Arrived in L'Anse.
October I. Confirmed in L'Anse, forty three.
6. Today I left L'Anse on the Balti- more; arrived in the evening of the 7th in the Sault. Letters.
II. Ordained Mr. Thiele subdeacon.
12. A memorable day for me and the Sault Ste. Marie. Today I, celebrated my first Pontifical High mass in the Sault; the first one ever celebrated here; also gave, here, Confirmation for the first time. Confirmed eighty-five-French, Irish and Indian.
18. Mr. Thiele received deaconship.
21. (Thiele) ordained Priest. (The first priest ordained in and for the dio- cese.
28. Went to Paiment and confirmed there forty four Indians and others.
November I. Anniversary of my Consecration. Solemn Pontifical High- mass.
3. Today Reverend Father Thiele leaves for his mission at Eagle Harbor.
17. Left Sault Ste. Marie for Macki- nac, where I arrived in the afternoon of the 18th. ( Mackinac seems to have been badly in need of repairs, the Bishop re- mained there a long time. )
December 3. Today I have established
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April 8. Easter Sunday. Pontificated pauvrement with but one priest.
18. A sleighride to the Isle de Bois Blanc. The ice still firm.
22. Preached the farewell sermon in Mackinac.
27. First boat 'Michigan' passed Mackinac from Detroit to Greenbay. Mr. Theodore Wendell brought good news with regard to the continuation of the Indian payment.
29. Sunday. Today arrived the first Propeller from Chicago going to Detroit.
30. Another Propeller, Nile, came to Mackinac today. On this boat I went, very comfortably to Detroit, May 2nd, where I found my lost trunk. God be praised !
May 4. Left Detroit, 10 a. m. on the Str. Bay City. (Bishop Baraga arrived in Cincinnati the following morning at ten o'clock. Father Hammer, as usual extended him hospitality. While in the city he attended the First Provincial Council of Cincinnati, from May 13th- 20th, and read the proof sheets of Kagige Debwewinan. Here he engaged six male school teachers, among whom was Tim- othy McNamara for a school at Traverse Bay. Baraga returned, by way of San- dusky and Detroit, to the Sault, on the 24th of June).
June 24. Preached in English and French.
26. Arrived in Mackinac.
28. Cross Village.
29. Arrived in Little Traverse and gave Confirmation, July Ist.
July 3. Arrived in Sheboygan, and the 4th, heard confession all day.
5. Again, back to Little Traverse.
6. At Abitawaiing, confessions all
day; on Sunday, the 8th, confirmed and preached.
9. Cross Village.
IO. Took us eight hours to reach the - Beaver Island. During three days' stay heard confessions and on the 13th, con- firmed forty four Indians. Came to Cross Village the same day.
15. Confirmed, at Cross Village, about twenty.
16. Arrived in Mackinac.
17. Left Mackinac on the Propeller "Stockman."
18. Landed in Northport of the Grand Traverse. Next day left for Pischabetown.
22. Confirmed, in Grand Traverse, Pischabetown, thirty one.
24. Arrived in Mackinac and anx- iously awaiting for an opportunity to go to Sault Ste. Marie.
29. Malheureusement-again a Sun- day. After a week's waiting the Illinois came.
30. Arrived in Sault Ste. Marie. A multitude of letters-good and bad.
31. Gave Mr. Jacker minores.
August 1. Mr. Jacker received Sub- deaconship.
4. Mr. Jacker was ordained Deacon.
5. (Reverend E. Jacker) ordained Priest. (The Second priest ordained in and for the diocese. )
8. Father Dunne left here for New York.
9. Left on the Str. Illinois.
10. Marquette.
II. Arrived in Eagle River and went straight to Eagle Harbor where I read Mass Sunday the 12th.
14. Came to L'Anse, accompanied by
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Father Jacker and Mr. Branen. On the feast of Assumption said Mass and preached in L'Anse. (Rev. E. Jacker re- mained in L'Anse. Mr. Branen was the new school teacher.)
16. Left L'Anse with Reverend C. Lemagie.
17. Arrived in Eagle Harbor, now awaiting a boat for La Pointe.
18. On the Str. Northerner left for La Pointe; arrived on the 19th.
23. Today Reverend Monsieur Carie left. Reverend Van Paemel arrived to take his place.
26. Confirmed thirty seven at La Pointe.
September I. Mr. Hickey (the school teacher ) commenced to board with Ant. Gaudin-Father Van Paemel came some- what later, but their board bill goes on from the Ist.
4. ' 4 p. m. left on the Northstar and came in five hours to Ontonagon.
5. Arrived at four o'clock in the morning in Eagle River and departed, overland, for L'Anse where I came at noon of the 6th.
IO. Departed from L'Anse-overland -arrived in the evening of the 11th in Eagle River.
12. Came to Eagle Harbor. Did not find Father Thiele here: he had gone to Detroit September 2nd.
16. Sailed early in the morning from Eagle Harbor, on the Manhattan.
17. Arrived in the Sault. A multi- tude of letters.
18. Today I gave Mr. Fox minor orders; on the 19th he received subdea- conship and on the 21st Deaconship.
20. This morning arrived here Mr. Auguste Eugene Benoit.
23. Today Reverend Martin Fox was ordained Priest, and left the 24th on the Northstar for Ontonagon; where he will celebrate his first holy Mass. May the blessing of God be with him! (Father Martin Fox, was the third priest or- dained in and for the diocese.) Today gave to Mr. Benoit subdeaconship.
29. (Reverend A. E. Benoit) or- dained deacon.
30. (Reverend A. E. Benoit) was ordained Priest. He said his first Mass October 2nd. (The fourth Priest of the Diocese ).
October I. Established here in Sault Ste. Marie, the Arch confraternity of the Sacred Heart of Mary.
12. In Marquette confirmed thirty persons.
15. Arrived in the Sault.
16. Father Thiele, on his way from Cincinnati, left for Eagle Harbor.
23. Father J. B. Weikamp arrived here today and promised to move with his Society to Little Traverse this fall, or for a certainty next spring. N. B. Sun- day October 21, it commenced to snow most efficaciously it increases since then des temps en temps.
29. Snow all gone.
30. Father Benoit left today for La Pointe to take from there a boat to Fort William.
November 7. Investing of Miss Mary Joseph Henry (of the Ursuline Commun- ity. )
9. Left Soo. and
IO. arrived in Mackinac.
14. Point St. Ignace.
26. Leave Pointe St. Ignace for the Isle de Ste. Helenè. Remained there the whole day of the 27th.
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I 3. Left Detroit to go by way of Sandusky to Cincinnati.
14. Arrived in Cincinnati to assist at the Dedication of the St. Joseph's church.
25. Preached in St. Joseph's church.
27. Arrived again in Cincinnati.
31. Now, the 'Printing' is at an end. (This explains the purpose of his visit to and his stay in Cincinnati ). Will remain another week for the sake of collecting.
June I. Preached at 10 o'clock in the Cathedral. After the sermon a collection was taken up-one hundred and fifty dol- lars .- At 8 o'clock in the evening I preached in the Jesuit church. The col- lection amounted to about sixty dollars.
II. Departed from Cincinnati, ac- companied by William O'Donovan and Timothy Hegney.
12. Came to Detroit.
13. On the Northstar, at 2:30 p. m. from Detroit.
14. At 5:30 p. m. arrived in the Soo.
26. Departed from Soo at 6 o'clock in the morning.
27. Arrived in Ontonagon at II o'clock. (The Diary does not tell of the business the good Bishop had in Ontona- gon but it does betray how anxious he was for a boat to come along in order to take him away. "Misere! he writes, waiting for a boat."
July 6. I took the Manhattan for La Pointe-arrived on the 8th.
9. (Manhattan) for Superior.
IO. (Manhattan) for Grand Portage.
II. Left on a moyenne berge (com- mon Barge) .. After rainy, but otherwise happy, and fast enough voyage, arrived in Fort Williams.
13. Confirmed (in Fort Williams) seventy seven persons.
14. Accompanied by Pere Du Ran- quet.
15. Arrived in Grand Portage.
20. Conufirmed (in Grand Portage) fifty three persons.
21. In a canoe to Superior. Misere! why not straight to La Pointe !
24. (Skirting the shore in a canoe), arrived in La Pointe, where I remained four days a guest of Francis Roy.
27. Sunday. In Superior, preached five times, strongly recommending the people to build a church as soon as possi- ble.
28. Took the Manhattan.
29. Arrived in La Pointe and re- ceived a multitude of letters and eight thousand four hundred francs.
August 3. Confirmed forty six in La Pointe.
7. Left La Pointe on the 'Superior' at 3:00 p. m. and arrived at eleven at night in Ontonagon.
IO. Confirmed twelve at Ontonagon.
12. Left for Minnesota Mine.
17. Confirmed twenty seven (at Min- nesota Mine.)
20. Arrived at Norwich Mine.
21. Confirmed thirty three, and ar- rived in the Ontonagon Village on the 25th.
28. Left with Mr. Murry (teacher) for Shaboigan (Michigan) school.
20. Arrived in Soo. September 4. Left the Soo.
5. Arrived in Eagle Harbor.
7. Confirmed fifteen, (in Eagle Har- bor.)
8. Arrived in Fulton Mine.
IO. Arrived at two o'clock in the morning in L'Anse.
14. Confirmed eleven persons.
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"From here I went in a birch-bark canoe to the newly-started little city of Superior, at Fond du Lac Bay. There is no church here as yet, but the zealous missionary Van Paemel is working hard to have one soon. There was no Con- firmation here because Rev. Van Paemel was absent. He was busy in La Pointe preparing people for Confirmation. I preached, on the 27th of July, five sermons at Superior, three in the morning and two in the afternoon, in English, French, and Indian. This is one of the greatest difficulties of our missionaries that they have such mixed congregations that they cannot satisfy the people with one ser- mon, but are obliged to preach in two or three different languages.
"From Fond du Lac (means Superior ) I went to La Pointe, where my first mis- sion at Lake Superior was located, which I opened in 1835. I preached here sev- eral times. and on the 3d of August con- firmed forty-six persons. In La Pointe Confirmation had been administered sev- eral times. Bishop Rese confirmed here in 1838, Bishop Henni in 1844, and now I gave Confirmation here for the third time.
"From La Pointe I went to Ontonagon. I was agreeably surprised when I saw the improvements which Rev. Father Dunne had made in the church as well as in the rectory. On the Ioth of August I preached three sermons and confirmed twelve persons. From here I went to the mines, where there are two nice churches, which have been erected this year through the generous contributions of the miners and the zealous endeavors of Father Fox. On the 17th of August Confirmation was given for the first time at Minnesota mine
and twenty-seven children and adults re- ceived this holy sacrament. On the same day the church at Minnesota was dedicat- ed to Almighty God and named St. Mary's, to the great satisfaction and joy of the multitude who had come there.
"Thence I went to another mine, called the Norwich, where also a small but neat chapel had been built this summer. On the 24th of August I dedicated this church to Almighty God under the name of St. Francis Xavier. On the same Sunday I confirmed thirty-three persons. After these visitations I returned to Sault Ste Marie." 7
Ach! Es ist im Leben haesslich einge- richtet,
Dass gleich neben Rosen Dornen stehen ! 8
These words of Scheffel ? could have been well applied, if Baraga had ever considered the mitre a thing worth cov- eting. If it has brought him episcopal dignity and honors, it has not spared him with trouble, caused by priest and lay- man. Among his comparatively small flock and a limited number of priests there were always some, who, by their reprehensible conduct made his sensitive heart bleed. November Ist, 1856 was the third anniversary of his consecration. Depression of mind and body must have been great, that, mindful of the day of his own elevation to the episcopate, he penned in his diary these memorable words: "Today is my third anniversary of consecration. A very sad day. I would almost say : Dies ille vertatur in tenebras,
Letter Oct. I, 1856, Verwyst.
8 In this life it is so ill ordained, that just be- side the roses thorns grow.
· Trompeter von Saeckingen.
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is very old and completely en enfence. I gave her the holy Viaticum and also Ex- treme Unction."12
On Sundays and festival days he preached himself, and in three languages at that, till somebody made a remark to him that it tired the people to listen to a sermon which they did not understand. After that he preached only in English or French, alternately, but he continued after Mass, the catechetical instructions in Indian, as he was wont to do.
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