With nearly 100 active causes for canonization currently in the United States, most of which are in the first stage of “Servant of God,” O’Neill puts the spot.
From the column: "He and his voyageur friend looked over the big waters and their destination 40 miles away. Their 18-foot birchbark canoe was a chancy ride since the 'bundle of twigs' were notorious leakers."
This week in Northlandia, we look into the history of the ‘Snowshoe Priest’, Frederic Baraga, who crossed Lake Superior in a canoe and may one day become saint.
A stone cross on the North Shore marks the seemingly miraculous success of a perilous journey for Frederic Baraga, a Slovenian missionary who traversed the Upper Midwest in the 19th century.