|
Lovrenc Košir
Lovrenc may refer to: * Lovrenc Košir, Austrian civil servant who worked in Ljubljana * Lovrenc Lavtižar (1820–1858), Slovene missionary in Minnesota, United States * Lovrenc na Pohorju Lovrenc na Pohorju (; german: Sankt Lorenzen an der Kärntnerbahn or ''Sankt Lorenzen ob Marburg'') is a settlement in northeastern Slovenia. It lies in the Pohorje Hills to the west of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styri ..., a settlement in northeastern Slovenia See also * Sveti Lovrenc (other), the name of several places in Slovenia {{disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovrenc Košir
Lovrenc may refer to: * Lovrenc Košir, Austrian civil servant who worked in Ljubljana * Lovrenc Lavtižar (1820–1858), Slovene missionary in Minnesota, United States * Lovrenc na Pohorju Lovrenc na Pohorju (; german: Sankt Lorenzen an der Kärntnerbahn or ''Sankt Lorenzen ob Marburg'') is a settlement in northeastern Slovenia. It lies in the Pohorje Hills to the west of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styri ..., a settlement in northeastern Slovenia See also * Sveti Lovrenc (other), the name of several places in Slovenia {{disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovrenc Lavtižar
Lovrenc Lavtižar (December 11, 1820 – December 3, 1858), also known as Lawrence Lautishar,Walling, Regis M., & N. Daniel N. Rupp (eds.). 1990. ''The Diary of Bishop Frederic Baraga: First Bishop of Marquette, Michigan.'' Detroit: Wayne State University Press, pp. 59-60. was a Slovene missionary in Minnesota. Biography Lavtižar was born in the village of Srednji Vrh in Upper Carniola. He was ordained on August 3, 1845 in Ljubljana,''Acta et Dicta'', vol. 5. 1917. St. Paul, MN: Catholic Historical Society of St. Paul, p. 240. after which he worked in Trebelno and Dobrova. In 1854 he traveled as a missionary to the Native American tribes in Michigan, where he worked with Frederic Baraga and Ignatius Mrak in L'Arbre Croche (now Harbor Springs). Francis Xavier Pierz invited him to Minnesota in 1857, where he was assigned to the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Lavtižar froze to death during a blizzard while returning across the ice of Red Lake after attending to a dying member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovrenc Na Pohorju
Lovrenc na Pohorju (; german: Sankt Lorenzen an der Kärntnerbahn or ''Sankt Lorenzen ob Marburg'') is a settlement in northeastern Slovenia. It lies in the Pohorje Hills to the west of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the Drava Statistical Region. It is the seat of the Municipality of Lovrenc na Pohorju. Name The name of the settlement was changed from ''Sveti Lovrenc na Pohorju'' (literally, 'Saint Lawrence on Pohorje') to ''Lovrenc na Pohorju'' (literally, 'Lawrence on Pohorje') in 1952. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms. Churches The parish church from which the settlement gets its name is dedicated to Saint Lawrence and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maribor ( la, Arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
