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"Most of the priestly life of Father Nicholas Mary Homan is half the history of Saint Mary Parish in the Buchanan County town of Hazleton. Father Horman was appointed pastor of Saint Mary’s in September 1913 and stayed until his death on February 3,…

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"Seven pastors have served Dubuque’s Sacred Heart Parish during its 110 year history. Father Fredrick William Pape was the first. Many young families had settled in the northern part of the city in the 1870s and industry developed in that area. As…

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"Saint Michael Parish got its start when in 1863 John Shonagel built a small frame church at his own expense in the town of Elkport, not even a mile across the river from the village of Garber in Clayton County. Several priests came from the…

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"In January 1951 Archbishop Binz appointed Msgr. Jaeger to found the new parish and Father Alvan P. Heuring to assist him in this task. Father Heuring took on the responsibility of visiting each of the 125 families of the new parish. The parish was…

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History of the Sacred Heart church and parish in Cox Creek, Iowa.

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"In 1863 Daniel and Mary Dougherty came to the southeastern corner of Cerro Gordo County to begin farming a claim he had made on the treeless prairie seven years earlier. Through their efforts other Catholic settlers came and the town of Dougherty…

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"Cherry Mound is located in Allamakee County. It is not a town, nor even a village, but a church site named for an abundance of wild cherry trees. The parish is named for Saint Pius V., a pope of the 16th century who worked for the reform of the…

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"At first Catholics of the Fairfax area in southwest Linn County attended Mass in Cedar Rapids, where Father William Emmonds was pastor. Later Father John Zleipsic, pastor of Saint Michael’s, Norway, came to offer Mass in their homes. And still later…

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Historical documents pertaining to the history of Saint Patrick parish in Head Wapsie, Iowa.

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"Green Island is a small Mississippi River town in the extreme southeastern corner of Jackson County and of the Archdiocese of Dubuque and named for the only patch of green showing during the high water. The town was first called Clarkestown or…
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