Francis Xavier Pierz
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Francis Xavier Pierz was a Slovenian-American Roman Catholic priest and missionary to the Ottawa and Ojibwe Indians in present-day Michigan, Wisconsin, Ontario, and Minnesota.
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Father Pierz's birthplace of Godič, as it appears today.
Bishop Frederic Baraga in his episcopal choir dress, holding his Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language. Photograph taken by Mathew Brady.
Ojibwe Wigwam at Grand Portage, painted by Eastman Johnson in 1857
Lake Superior Ojibwe Powwow at Grand Portage, 2009.
Bishop Joseph Crétin, c.1850.
The townsite of Old Crow Wing, Minnesota, as it appears today.
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About this person
Francis Xavier Pierz was a Slovenian-American Roman Catholic priest and missionary to the Ottawa and Ojibwe Indians in present-day Michigan, Wisconsin, Ontario, and Minnesota. Because his letters convinced numerous Catholic German Americans to settle in Central Minnesota after the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851, Fr. Pierz is referred to as the "Father of the Diocese of Saint Cloud."
Country
United StatesCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1785 to 1880 · aged 94
Written about in
5 languages
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