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From Mackinaw, Father.\fazzuchelli went north tosiriult Sainte Marie, in Nor-::Prn )ficirigan ancl Southwest: , {ireen Bay, in ]Misconsin. Ttrras from Green Bay 1hu1 nur';as later to radiate his worki'-rff&r'tls fowa, and towards\,rrthern Illinois.is tlifficult in a short mag-TT r azine artiele to givc irr delailall the peregrinations and.-r-rnrnels that Father \[-azzrt-':helli went through during his-.Pars of missionary work. HeI'erfolmed his task so ri'ell thatrre \ras made a vicar-general ofthe diocese of Dubuque underBishop Loras. I{e was a1so,lrl- appointment from Rome,L'ommissary general of hisr-,rcler in this region. Had hewished it, he could also havelrecome a bishop, but he declinedthe offer in 1850. IIewrote on that occasion toBishop Lorasr "My presentsituation (in Benton) is morepleasing to me than any I harrehad before in America ancl itwould be a great sacrifice toleave it even for a bishopric. . .Tf the Lord is not very muchclispleased with me, he will permitme to work in oblivion beforethe world and enable me toknow Him more and more. "X-or, such was the nature ofthe missionary. No personalgain, no glory, no self-satisfaction.Even his personal recollectionsdo not bear his name.They were published in Milan,about the ,vear 1844 under thetitle of " lVf emorie fstoriche ededificanti d'un missionarioapostolico dell'Ordine dei Predicatorifra varie tribu di selvaggie fra i Cattolici e iFATHER SANIUEI- C. MAZZTJC]IELLIProtestanti negli Stati Ltniti diAmerica.t' They were translatedinto English in 1915.E]ATHER \IAZZUCHELLII dislinguislred hinrself inAmerica in various capacities.Above all he was the missionarl-.The churches built b-vhim in lowa, in Wisconsin, andin Illinois attest both his zealand success. Those at Dubuque( now a Cathedral), atBurlington, at Davenport, atMaquoketa, Iowa Cit;', Bloomington,Bellevue, Shullsburg,Sinsinarva, Galena, Prairie c1uChierr and Green Bay, areamong the trventy-five or morethat he built.Then he 'was an educator. Inconnection v'ith every one ofhis churches he built a school.He also organized a Congregationfor men, which lastedmany years untii lack of fundscompelled it to dissolve in 1866.But the Congregation of theMost Ifoly Rosary, which heestablished at Sinsinawa, Wisconsin,was bound to thrive.Toclay it numbers more than800 sisters, and it has morethan 15 schools in 15 differentdioceses in the United States.More than 20,000 pupils receiveinstruction from the Sisters ofthe }Iost Holy Rosary. Theirbest school is the well knor,vnAcademy and College of St.CIara.Father Mazzuchelli was alsoan architect of no little merit.Many, indeed, were the courthousesin fowa and trVisconsinwhich were built according tohis plans. The State Capitoi atIowa City is one of the manr.buildings for which he acted asarchitect. Today it forms the61Central Building of the Universifi.of Ior,'v-a.And last but not least, FatherNlazzuchelli was an orator ofgrea,t eloquence. "IMhen, onOctober 25,1836, the First TerritorialLegislature of JVisconsinbegan its first session inBelmont, on motion of PatrickQuigi;' it was voted that the'chair invite the Rer'. Mr.Mazzachelli to open the meetingwith prayer tornorrow'"(J. D. Bttler, i,n WisconsinHi,stori,cal C ollecti,ons, u ol. t+) .Mr. Quigly was the first manin Dubuque to entertain theyoung missionary. That was,indeed, quite an honor for aforeign priest who hacl beenless than eight years in thenew countrl-.D UT Father JfazzuclLeilr un-I-D clerstood the spirit o[America. To quote Archbishoplreland again: "He w-asa foreigner by birih and education;situations in his nativeftalv were much the antipodesof those in the countr;. of hisadoption. Yet he was theAmerican to the core of hisheart, to the tip of his finger.He understood America; heloveil America. "That explains perhaps whyhe was so dear both to Catholicsancl Protestants.Father MazzacTtelli died ofpneumonia at Benton, Wisconsin,on tr'ebruar;- 23, L864. Itis said that he contracted hisillness as the result of a visiton a very cold da-v to the cleathbecl of one of his parishioners.I{e was buried in the cemeteryof Benton, where a little monumentwas erected to his memory.