Baraga Homestead

The Baraga Collection is dedicated to bishop, missionary, and linguist Friderik Irenej Baraga (1797–1868), and is arranged in two rooms of his birthplace, a manor in Mala vas near Trebnje. The collection consists of the Baraga memorial room, which exhibits personal belongings, and a room presenting his missionary activities among the native peoples of North America. The collection is managed by the Archbishop's Ordinariate in Ljubljana. Part of his collection, however, is on display at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum and represents the oldest contribution to the museum (donated by the missionary in 1837).

Baraga worked among the fur-traders and the Ottawa and, later, Ojibwe Indians from 1831 till his death and wrote a catechism in Ojibwe language as well as its grammar and dictionary (still in use today). A county and a town in Michigan (USA) have been named after the bishop.

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Dobrnič Cultural and Tourist Association web page
Friderik Irenej Baraga on Wikipedia
Baraga's biography on Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Frederic Baraga: Katolik, Masinakisan (Michigan), 1846, integral digitalised book in Ojibwe language
Bishop Baraga Association

Baraga Homestead

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