The Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour, Faribault, is living testimony to the faith of two great 19th Century churchmen-frontier missionary James Lloyd Breck anf Henry Benjamin Whipple, the first Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota. They shared the vision of a cathedral in the wilderness.a 'Bishop's Church' more in name than fact. Yet as this book, written for the Cathedral's 125th anniversary, shows, there was {and is} considerably more to the story.