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ada, where he died in 1853. The name of the diocese was originally Jamestown, which title was suppressed by the Holy See, 6 April, 1S97, and changed to Fargo in accordance with the bishop's request. At its for- mation the diocese contained a population of 19,000, of whom nearly 8000 were Indians and half-breeils. The population (1908) is about 70,000.

With the creation of the diocese the Rev. John Shanley was named its first bishop. He was born at Albion, New York, -1 Jan., 1852, and ordained priest 30 May, 1874, at Rome. His consecration as bishop took place at St. Paul, 27 Dec, 1889. There were then in the diocese 30 priests, 40 churches, an academy for girls, a hospital, and 3 parochial schools. There are now (1909) in the diocese a mitred abbot, 110 priests, 215 churches, 15 parochial schools, 4 Indian schools, 5 hospitals, an orphanage, a college for boys, and 6 academies for girls. In eighteen years the num- ber of priests quadrupled and the number of churches more than quintupled.

The Benedictine Fathers have an abbey at Richard- ton, and a priory at Devil's Lake, from which points they attend several missions. Connected with the Richardton Abbey is a college for boys. The Bene- dictine .Sisters are in charge of several schools, and the Presentation Nuns in charge of schools and orphans. Other communities are: Sisters of Mercy (hospital and schools); Sisters of St. Joseph (hospitals and school); Sisters of Charity, or Grey Nuns (Indian school); Sisters of Mary of the Presentation (schools).

Diocesan records; Catholic Dinclory. 1909; Reuss, Biog. Encycl. Calh. Hierarchy U. S. (Milwaukee. ISQS).

John Shanley.

Faribault, George-Barthelemt, archaeologist, b. at Quebec, Canada, 3 Dec, 1789 ; d. 22 Dec, 18G6. He was a first cousin of Jean-Baptiste, founder of the city of Faribault, Minn., U. S. A. After attending a school taught by a Scotch veteran of Wolfe's army, he com- pleted by personal efforts the course preparatory to the .study of law and was admitted to the Bar in 1811. In 1812 he served as a militiaman during the invasion of Canada by the Americans. In 1822 he entered the civil service, attaining in 1832 the rank of assistant clerk of the Legislative Assembly, an office he con- tinued to hold after the union of the Canadas-(1841) until 1855, when ill-health forced him to resign. Pas- sionately fond of his country and of its past glories, he spent all his leisure in collecting documents and books pertaining to Canadian history. His tine collection (1700) of rare books and original manuscripts perished at the burning of the Parliament House in Montreal (1849). He courageously began a second collection, which he bequeathed to Laval University. Faribault published no original works, merely reproducing and annotating a series of rare historical papers in the transactions of the Quebec Literary and Historical Society, of which he was one of the chief promoters and benefactors. His principal publication is the " Catalogue of Works" relating to the history of Amer- ica, with bibliographical, critical, and literary notes (Quebec, 1837), which, although superseded by a few later catalogues, ranks among the best. In 1859 he realized the long-postponed plan, conceived in 1761 by Montcalm's companions in arms, of erecting a memo- rial tablet over the soldier's grave. The epitaph, written by the French Academy at the time the sulj- ject was first brought up and approved by William Pitt, was duly inscribed. In private life Faribault was the tj^pe of the Christian gentleman, modest, hos- pitable, and charitable. He counted none but friends, and left the record of a blameless career, devoted to the service of God and country.

MoRiiAN. Bibliolheca Canadensis (Ottawa, 1867); Casgrai.n, (Euvnx computes (Quebec. 1873).

Lionel Lindsay.

Faribault, Jean-Baptiste, trader with the Indians and early settler in Minnesota, U. S. A.; b. 19 October,

1774, at Berthier, Lower Canada ; d. at Faribault, Min- nesota, 20 August, 1860. His father Barthelemy Faribault, a lawj-er of Paris, France, settled in Can- ada towards the middle of the eighteenth century, and served as military secretary to the French army in Canada. After the occupation of the country by the English he retired to private life in Berthier and held the office of notary public. Young Jean-Baptiste re- ceived a good school education, and after several years of mercantile emplojTnent at Quebec, entered the service of the Northwest Fur Company. In May, 1798, he went with others to the island of Michili- mackinac or Mackinac, one of the depots of this com- pany. For over ten years he traded with the Potto- watomie Indians at Kankakee, with the Dakota or the Sioux Indians at Redwood, on the Des Moines river, and at Little Rapids, on the St. Peter or Minnesota river. During his residence at Little Rapids, in 1805, he was married to Pelagia Hanse, a half-breed daugh- ter of Major Hanse. In 1809, he settled in the small village of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and commenced trading, on his own account, with the Indian tribes of the Winnebagoes, Foxes, and Sioux. In addition to that he conducted an exchange of lead with Julien Dubuque, at the point now occupied by the city of that name. During the war with England (1812-14) Faribault refused to enlist in the English army, and suffered imprisonment and the loss of all his goods in consequence. After the conclusion of the war, in 1815, he became a citizen of the LTnited States, and recommenced his trade at Prairie du Chien. In 1819, he removed to Pike Island in the Mississippi River, and in 1826 to the village of St. Peter, or Mendota, Minnesota, opposite the military post of Fort Snelling. There he remained until the last years of liis life, which were spent with his children in the town of Faribault, Minnesota. A cotmty in southern Minne- sota was named after him, and the city of that name after his eldest son. Faribault was always kind and generous to the Indians, and tried to elevate them by teaching them the useful arts of life, and by instilling into them the principles of Christianity. He was much attached to the Catholic faith of his childhood and presented a house for a chapel to Father Lucien Galtier, the first resident missionary in Minnesota (1840).

Sibley. Memmr of Jean Baptiste Faribault in Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, 1880), III; TASsfc, Les Canadiens deVOuest (Montreal. 1878). I; Encyclopedia of Biog- Taphy of Minnesota (Chicago, 1900\ I; Kiester. The History of Faribault County, Minnesota (Minneapolis. 1896).

Francis J. ScasiFER.

Farinato, P.<.olo, an Italian painter, b. at Verona, 1524; d. there, 1606. He belonged to the old Floren- tine family of Farinata degli Uberti, the famous head of the Ghibelline party, whom Dante placed in his In- ferno. When the Guelfs triumphed, the LTberti were expelled and part of the family settled at Verona; it was to this branch that the painter lielonged. In his native town Paolo was a pupil of Giolfino, wlio was car- rying on there the artistic tradition of Liberate, the greatest perhaps of Italian miniaturists, whose won- derful illustrations in the choir books of the Libreria of Siena (1470-1476). his blustering Boreas, liis Mass in which the celebrant is a turbaned priest with a head hke Klingsor the magician, his startling view of the Castle of Sant' Angelo, are well known.

It thus came about that in Verona, a town without any great artistic past, a really original school was being formed, untrammelled by traditions and there- fore all the more free to indulge in those novel colour- schemes in painting which had already found startling expression in the mausoleums of Cane Grande della Scala, and the barons of his family. Towards the close of the fifteenth century, in the neighbourhood of Verona, the Venetian masters, Giovanni Bellini, Gior- gione, and Titian, had just brought about a great artis-