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Man in the desert with his hands in the air

The face on a man behind a fence

God with his arms open in front of a cup and bread in a table. There are 6 people in the back looking down.

Peter Hoffmann stands in a German Trench that is near Fey-en-Haye, France during World War I. The walls of the trench are covered in stone and dirt, some parts may have concrete. There is a log that is laying over the two opposite sides of the trench…

“Immaculate Conception Parish owes its origin to Father Thomas Hore, a native of the parish of Our Lady’s Island in County Wexford, Ireland. His life would be good material for an interesting saga. Father Hore, born in 1796, completed his theological…

“The Catholic Church in Benton County began with the deeding of two sections of prairie near Keystone, Iowa, to the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in January 1863. Francis Murphy, a Benton county pioneer, gave those 1,280 acres in return for…

“In 1892 the Catholic pioneers judged their numbers were sufficient to build a church. That year they raised some money by means of a fair in the Cass Opera House. In August they began hauling rocks for the foundation. The church was a white frame…

"The first Catholics bought a stone church built by the Sand Springs Baptists at the beginning of Civil War and closed for ten or more years. The church was dedicated to the Mother of God under her title of the Immaculate Conception. The first…

"Father James Saunders directed the building of the New Haven church and then saw to the building of the Riceville church. In the early spring of 1879 funds were collected by Pat Mulick and John Dargan. Among those who were generous toward the…