Collection, 1808-1895 bulk 1839-1895.

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Collection, 1808-1895 bulk 1839-1895.

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Correspondence and papers of Ignatius Mrak; transcripts of letters written by Ignatius Mrak and Frederic Baraga; catechisms composed by Ignatius Mrak, Francis X. Pierz, and N.L. Sifferath in Ottawa or Ojibwa; a manuscript dictionary of French, German, and Indian; and a biography of Bishop Baraga in Slovenian. Also printed material donated by Bishop Mrak, including national songs of Austria and Hungary printed in Hungarian and German, a Slovenian treatise on the making of charcoal, a poem by Professor Frank concerning the burning of a town near Laibach, the home of Baraga and Mrak, songs, and Positiones ex Institutionibus Philosophae Universae (1808).

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University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library

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University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library

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Catholic Church. Diocese of Detroit (Mich.)

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Mrak, Ignatius, 1818-1901.

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Bishop of Marquette, Michigan, 1869-1878, and minister to the Indians of upper Michigan. From the description of Papers, 1839-1895. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 25315126 ...

Sifferath, N. L.

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Sifferath was a Catholic priest and missionary to the Ottawa and Ojibwa Indians in Michigan. He worked with Rev. Frederic Baraga to compile a catechism for the tribes, a copy of which is in the Clarke Historical Library. From the description of Receipt, 1865. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 44631331 ...

Pierz, Francis, 1785-1880

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Catholic Church

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During much of Doctor JoseĢ Gaspar de Francia's dictatorship (1814-1840), Paraguay was without a bishop and the church was harrassed. From the description of Libro de providencias, ordenes, y autos : por Dn. Juan Antonio Riveras, cura rector de la parrequial de la Villeta : manuscript, 1804-1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612746619 An antiphonary is a book containing sacred vocal music, both the antiphons of the breviary, and the musical notes. An antiphon it...

Catholic Church. Missions Among the Colored People and the Indians.

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Baraga, Frederic, 1797-1868

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Frederic Baraga was born on June 29, 1797 in a Slovene province of Dobrinic, Carniola, later known as Slovenia. After receiving his preparatory education in Ljubljana, where his talent for languages was marked, he studied law at the University of Vienna. Upon graduation in 1821 he broke his engagement to marry, renounced his inheritance, and entered Ljubljana's seminary. He was ordained September 21, 1823. In 1830 he emigrated to the United States, and devoted thirty- six years of his life to th...

Catholic Church. Diocese of Marquette (Mich.)

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In 1853 the area of Upper Michigan came under the jurisdiction of the missionary Frederic Baraga, Vicar Apostolic. In 1857 the Vicariate became the Diocese of Sault Saint Marie, with the transfer of the see to Marquette coming in 1864. Baraga served as first bishop and Ignatius Mrak (1818-1901) as his Vicar-General. Mrak, born in Austria and ordained in 1837, arrived in the Diocese of Detroit in 1845. He worked first at the Indian mission at Arbre Coche with Rev. Francis...