Download or read book Life and Labors of Bishop Baraga written by Fr. Chrysostom Verwyst OFM and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BISHOP FREDERIC BARAGA was a great apostle to the Native Americans and other peoples of the Upper Great Lakes. Born in Slovenia in 1797, he came to North America in 1830 as a missionary priest. For 37 years he poured himself out in love for people, ministering to them over a vast territory of more than 80,000 square miles of wilderness.