Frederic Baraga was born in 1797 in the Austrian territory of Carniola, later known as Slovenia. He was well-educated; he knew several languages, and he graduated with a law degree from the University of Vienna in 1821. He did not practice law, however. Instead, shortly after graduating, he entered the diocesan seminary at Laibach, and in 1823 he was ordained as a diocesan priest. He functioned as a parish priest in the Diocese of Ljubljana for about seven years, and he published a Slovenian prayerbook.
Baraga happened to come upon a pamphlet written by the Vicar General of the Diocese of Cincinnati, Frederick Rése, who was in Europe at the time, setting up a foundation called the Leopoldine Stiftung (Leopoldine Society), sponsore… Go to person page >
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