The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . hed by Cireton (Oxford, 1853), and Lives of the Orien-tal Saint3, Land ed. in his Anecdota Syriaca, II, 249-257: Du-val, Litiirature Syriaque (2d ed., Paris, 1900); Kleyn, JacobusBaraddus (Leyden, 1882). R. BUTIN. Baraga, Frederic, first Bishop of Marquette,Michigan, U. S. A., b. 29 June, 1797, at Malavas, inthe parish of Dobernice in the Austrian Dukedom ofCarniola; d. at Marquette, Mich., 19 January, was baptized on the very day of hi
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . hed by Cireton (Oxford, 1853), and Lives of the Orien-tal Saint3, Land ed. in his Anecdota Syriaca, II, 249-257: Du-val, Litiirature Syriaque (2d ed., Paris, 1900); Kleyn, JacobusBaraddus (Leyden, 1882). R. BUTIN. Baraga, Frederic, first Bishop of Marquette,Michigan, U. S. A., b. 29 June, 1797, at Malavas, inthe parish of Dobernice in the Austrian Dukedom ofCarniola; d. at Marquette, Mich., 19 January, was baptized on the very day of his birth, inthe ])arish church of Dobernice, by the names ofIrenaus Frederic, the first of which, however, henever used, retaining only the second. His parents,Johann Nepomuc Baraga and Maria Katharine Jo-sefa (nte de Jennie), had five children, of whomFrederic was the fourth. His father was not rich,but his mother inherited after her fathers deaththe estate of Malavas, besides a vast fortune. Theywere God-fearing and pious, and strove, while theysurvived, to give a good education to their mother died in 1808, and his father in 1812,. The Right Rev. FhedeeicBaraga and Frederic spent his boyhood in the house ofDr. George Dolinar, a, layman, professor in thediocesan clerical seminary at Laibach. In 1816 young Frederic Baraga entered theUniversity of Vienna, studied law, and graduatedin 1821, but soon turned his thoughts to the clericalstate, and enteredthe seminary of Lai-bach that same was ordainedpriest 21 September,1823, at Laibach,and laboured withgreat zeal and spir-itual success as as-sistant in St. Mar-tins parish, nearKrainberg, and atMetlika, in LowerCarniola. On the29th of October, 1830,he left his nativeland for the UnitedStates to spend therest of his life in theIndian missionaryfield. After a jour-ney of two months,he landed in New York on the 31st of December, 1830. He then pro-ceeded to Cincinnati, (3hio, where he arrived 18 Janu-ary, 1831. He w
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