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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.