The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
FREDERICK BARAGA.
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week he baptized thirty people,
men, women and children. He re-
NAMED another week and when hc
left he promised the Indians that he
would move to L'Anse in the fall OF
that year aud remain with them for
n time. He then returned To La
Point, and for the journey FUR
nshcd him with canoe, ana sent
two Of my men to accompany him.
Upon his arrival vt LaPoint re-
ceived the following letter from him:
Mr.. p. Crebassa, L'Anse, Mich;
Dear Sir-I write you only a few
lines to thank you for all your
charity and goodness to me. am
unable to rccompense you Tor all
your goodness and services. | pray
God that he may do what cannot
and that be may bless you in this
world and in the next. | hope you
do on Sundays as | requested OF you
before left your place for the good
work. Also that Almighty God VIII
recompense you and | beg you to
continue as long as you remain
there Our voyage has been some
what disagrceable, but short. We
arrived ON Friday at & 0 clock in the
a'ternoon. Your men intended TO
start Immediately the following day,
but Isdore felt little on energy,
and they intend to start tomorrow
morning. with much respect your
sincere friend,
I# FREDERICK BARAGA
LaPoint, Jane Is, 1913.
The impending departure OF ia,
Their Baraga from LaPoint caused
much sorrow among the Indians OF
that mission. For nearly a decade
he had been their consolation in
their abicct misery. He had taught
them the sublime lesson OF Jesus
Christ, and the sorrows of the
Mother of the Redeemcr, the chosen
one OF her sex who gave to the world
Saviour whose suffering and whose
death upon the cross were TO con
summate the Divine mission OF
man S redemption.
He had come among them as poor
as themselves, and they were, be-
yond question. the most abJect OF
the American Indian Gnations Of Q
northwest. He not only had SUI
sisted on their scanty TODD, but he
had shivcrcd and been nearly frozen
during the rigors of the long LA, c
Superior winters. When runner
or a messenger had come to his
cabin during the frigid seasons,
while the temperature was below
zero, to beg his attendance at some
distant cabin, where some poor
Indian whom he had baptized was
about to succumb TO starvation or
TO cold, he had put on his snow
shoes and regardless of time or
distance or weather he set out to
bring the supreme consolation OF
religion 10 the soul OF the dying
Christian.
He had taught the women OF tins
unl ,rtunajc race. upon whom the
burden of the common misery rest
ed most painfully, TO offer their al
fect.on TO the Mother of Sorrows,
as Il powerful intermediary before
the throne OF her Omnipotcnt Son.
Aud, fully appreciating her virtues
and her merits, when the Chippewa
mother sent for him. when her child
was mcnaccd with death, and knccl-
ing before him exclaimed in the eX-
prcssiVr language OF her people:
" 'i}lackgown, speak TO the mother
or the Great Spirit, that my child !
M. Ia, %, 4
seemed good that the child, whom he F..
had baptized, should be saved, this |
apostolic friend Of probably the ,
most miserable people on earth /
raised his eyes toward heaven and |
prayed. There are some survivors !
OF the Chippcwas Of LaPoint domi- /
ciIed at l. Ansc, saved from cX- I
patriatioa by the forcthought of |
Father Baraga, who tell us that
when the missionary, overcome by |
the sorrows OF the Chippewa moth
~, appealed to the mother of the
Great Spirit, y the expression OF his
face became transformed. as we
might say. from the earthly. to the
for its description would /
III possible. DuJ Tue tullu Ol |.
squaw was saved.
The crucial experience OF Father
s'araga S apostolate during the first
decade of his residence at the heaC
waters of Lake Superior at LaPoint
may never be known He was very
rcticcnt in all that related to his
personal privations, Undoubtedly
the Chippewas on this island were
among the poorest Of the people of
this nation at the time, and perhaps
~ this account the majority of them
we're converted to Christianity with
ess hard labor than they/cohld have
been had they been living in more
condition.
While contemplating his removal
rom LaPoint to L'Anse Father
i'araga brought to the former mis-
sion his fellow-countryman, the
Franciscan Father Skolla.
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