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.Lukman, Franc Ksaver, et al. (eds.). 1932. ''Slovenski biografski leksikon'', vol. 4, Kocen–Lužar. Ljubljana: Zadružna gospodarska banka.
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Biography

Lavtižar was born in the village of Srednji Vrh in

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and baptized ''Lorenz Lautischar''. 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

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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 Ignatius Mrak (October 16, 1810 – January 2, 1901) was a Slovenian-born American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Sault Saint Marie and Marquette from 1869 to 1879. Biography Early life Mrak was born on October 16, 18 ...

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(now Harbor Springs).

Francis Xavier Pierz Francis Xavier Pierz ( or ''Franc Pirec''; ) (November 20, 1785 – January 22, 1880) was a Slovenian-American Roman Catholic priest and missionary to the Ottawa (tribe), Ottawa and Ojibwe Indians in present-day Michigan, Wisconsin, Ontario, and ...

invited him to Minnesota in 1857, where he was assigned to the

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. Lavtižar froze to death during a

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while returning across the ice of Red Lake after attending to a dying member of his congregation. He was buried by Pierz in Crow Wing, Minnesota on December 26, 1858. He was reburied at Calvary Cemetery in

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on September 22, 1892, with a burial service presided over by James Trobec.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lavtizar, Lovrenc 1820 births 1858 deaths 19th-century Slovenian Roman Catholic priests Slovenian Roman Catholic missionaries People from the Municipality of Kranjska Gora Roman Catholic missionaries in the United States People from Harbor Springs, Michigan Expatriates from the Austrian Empire Slovenian expatriates in the United States