Bishop Baraga, the Snowshoe Priest — sometime Father Frederic Baraga of the archdiocese of Cincinnati — has been declared Venerable!
Hoody-hoo!
Here’s an old post of mine about him.
Here’s another old post about his hymn translations in missals in various Native American languages. (Google has messed up the links, but all the hymns are at the back of the missal/catechism book.)
11 May 2012 at 1:34 pm
That’s great news. Thanks for sharing it, ‘banshee.
11 May 2012 at 1:45 pm
Now all we have to do is find out all the places he served, and we’ll have a little list of pilgrimage-y places. Many conveniently nearby you!
12 May 2012 at 10:55 pm
We use to say prayers that a miracle cure for Father Jim Willig would be the one needed to begin the sainthood process for Bishop Baraga
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/06/25/loc_cancer_claims.html