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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Father Christmas with Tree and Toys]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Roseliep Christmas Postcard Collection]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Roseliep, Raymond]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Christmas Postcards]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Father Christmas]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Father Christmas is dressed in a long red coat and hat. He is carrying a bag of toys on his back as well as one on his front; under his left arm he has a Christmas tree with the base facing toward the viewer. There are are scattered holly decorations around the card and a large one with a bell and ribbon at the bottom. &quot;A Merry Christmas&quot; is printed in the upper left. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Raymond Roseliep Collection. Finding aids for the collection can be found at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep"> http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep</a>]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Date postcard was scanned:20170502]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Bernhard, Hannah]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The Loras College Library rights statement is located at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/rights">http://libguides.loras.edu/special/rights</a>]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[RoseliepPostcards_709_009]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Box 7, Tab 9]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Father Christmas Delivers Tree and Mistletoe ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Roseliep Christmas Postcard Collection]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Roseliep, Raymond]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Christmas Postcards]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Father Christmas]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Father Christmas is dressed in a long red robe, carrying a bag of toys on his back, dolls at his belt, a Christmas tree in one hand and a basket of mistletoe in the other. &quot;A Merry Christmas&quot; is printed in the upper right and the handwritten signature &quot;McKinley&quot; is in the lower right. Also along the bottom is a decoration of holly, a bell, and a ribbon.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Raymond Roseliep Collection. Finding aids for the collection can be found at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep"> http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep</a>]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Date postcard was scanned:20170502]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Bernhard, Hannah]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The Loras College Library rights statement is located at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/rights">http://libguides.loras.edu/special/rights</a>]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[RoseliepPostcards_709_010]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Box 7, Tab 9]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Father Christmas Carrying Toys]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Roseliep Christmas Postcard Collection]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Roseliep, Raymond]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Christmas Postcards]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Father Christmas]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Father Christmas is dressed in a long red hooded coat, walking using a walking stick. On his back he carries a blue bag of toys, and he has a satchel filled with more toys and a small tree. &quot;A Merry Christmas&quot; is printed in the upper left and there are holly decorations around the card, with a bell and ribbon in the bunch at the bottom.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Raymond Roseliep Collection. Finding aids for the collection can be found at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep"> http://libguides.loras.edu/special/roseliep</a>]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Date postcard was scanned:20170502]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Bernhard, Hannah]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[The Loras College Library rights statement is located at <a href="http://libguides.loras.edu/special/rights">http://libguides.loras.edu/special/rights</a>]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[RoseliepPostcards_709_011]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Box 9, Tab 9]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/show/5702">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Holy Trinity (Baldwin, Iowa)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA["In the southwest corner of Jackson County, between Maquoketa and Wyoming, the town of Fremont was platted in the center of Monmouth Township in 1859. Five years later, on May 5, 1864, Joseph J. Kopsa called a meeting of the area Catholics. He gave the land to the newly formed society that later became Saint John Bohemian Church. The name recognized that most of the members were of Czech ancestry. These settlers had been attending the Catholic Church in Onslow and then in their own homes when priests would visit the area from Cascade, Delmar, Garryowen, Hughes’ Settlement, and Oxford Junction. It is claimed that at least forty-five children were baptized in the old Ales homestead. They began building a stone church in 1864, and it was used for Mass before it was completed in 1871."<br /><br /> - Rev. Msgr. Edgar Kurt, "Parish Profile #120," <em>The Witness,</em> April 16, 1989.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[The Archdiocese of Dubuque.<br />
The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College.]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[ Loras College<br />
 Kucera Center for Catholic Thought <br />
 Frank and Ida Goedken Series: &quot;Spiritual Life in the Upper Mississippi River Valley&quot;<br />
]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Burback, Emily. Burns, Daniel. Gibson, Michael. Oberfoell, Carol. Waldmeir, Helen. Waldmeir, John.]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English.]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Various primary and secondary sources.]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[1864-<br />
History of the parish over the span of 125 years, including information about its priests and parishioners. ]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/show/5703">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish (Cresco, Iowa)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA["The oldest Catholic parish in Howard County began with four families from Canada with the family names of Christmas, Hannigan, Ryan and Welsh. At first priests from Prairie du Chien came to serve them, but in 1853 Father Clement Lowery from Decorah attended to their needs. They built a limestone church on property purchased from James Upton in Vernon Springs, just south of Cresco. Family names then included Barnes, Carroll, Conner, Conry, Donahue, Glass, Higgins, Logue, Long, Ploff, Reynolds, Schaefer and Sweet. When the railroad located its depot in Cresco, many of the Catholics moved from Vernon Springs into Cresco and so the first resident pastor, Father James Harding, celebrated Mass in Cresco." <br /><br />- Kurt, Rev. Msgr. Edgar, "Parish Profile #58," <em>The Witness,</em> January 24, 1988.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[The Archdiocese of Dubuque.<br />
The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College. ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Loras College<br />
 Kucera Center for Catholic Thought <br />
 Frank and Ida Goedken Series: &quot;Spiritual Life in the Upper Mississippi River Valley&quot;<br />
]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Burback, Emily. Burns, Daniel. Gibson, Michael. Oberfoell, Carol. Waldmeir, Helen. Waldmeir, John.]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:references><![CDATA[Various primary and secondary sources.]]></dcterms:references>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English. ]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[ca. 1853-<br />
Historical documents pertaining to Assumption parish and its parishioners. ]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/show/5704">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[St. Anthony (Dubuque, Iowa)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA["Saint Anthony’s was a school for several years before it was a parish. As a parish it was dedicated first to Saint Malachi, then to Saint Aiden in 1880. Later to Saint Ambrose and still later to Saint Anthony. The parish had its beginning when Bishop John Hennessy directed Father Thomas O’Reilly, rector of the Cathedral, to build a school at the present corner of St. Ambrose and Seminary Streets in 1866. It was the policy of the new bishop to have a school in every parish, and he intended establishing a parish for the people of the hill district of Dubuque. The school was staffed by lay teachers until the coming of the Presentation Sisters in 1876, when the men of the area built a convent for them and became the pioneers of the new parish."<br /><br /> - Rev. Msgr. Edgar Kurt, Parish Profile #52, <em>The Witness</em>, December 1, 1987.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:tableOfContents><![CDATA[RENOVATION AND REDEDICATION MATERIALS (3 documents) PARISH HISTORY MATERIALS (4 documents) <br />
MASS PROGRAMS (3 documents) <br />
PARISH NEWSLETTERS (4 documents) <br />
<br />
“Souvenir Program… St. Anthony’s Church Concert.” 4 February, <br />
1900. <br />
<br />
Van der Meer, W.J, Jr. “Saint Anthony’s Church, Dubuque, Iowa: Rt. Rev. Peter O’Malley, Pastoral Golden Jubilee, 1898-1948.” <br />
<br />
“St. Anthony CELEBRATION OF REDEDICATION.” Invitation pamphlet. December 1996. <br />
<br />
“Rededication of St. Anthony Church.” Mass program. 14 December, 1996. <br />
<br />
Unknown author(s). “St. Anthony’s Church; Dubuque, Iowa, 1985.” Parish directory.   1985. <br />
<br />
McCarey, John and Karla. “St. Anthony’s High School Youth Retreat.” Invitation and release form. 1990. <br />
<br />
Parish Plan Task Force. “St. Anthony’s Parish Plan.” 1975. <br />
<br />
Blessington, W.H. Letter to James Byrne. 11 December, 1975. <br />
<br />
Byrne, James. Response to William Blessington. 15 December, 1975.]]></dcterms:tableOfContents>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[The Archdiocese of Dubuque. <br />
The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College. ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Loras College<br />
 Kucera Center for Catholic Thought <br />
 Frank and Ida Goedken Series: &quot;Spiritual Life in the Upper Mississippi River Valley&quot;<br />
]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Burback, Emily. Burns, Daniel. Gibson, Michael. Oberfoell, Carol. Waldmeir, Helen. Waldmeir, John. ]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English. ]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Various primary and secondary sources. ]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[1876-<br />
History of the parish over the span of 142 years, including information about its priests and parishioners.  ]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/show/5705">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[St. Bridget (Bluffton, Iowa)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA["The first settlers in Bluffton Township, Winneshiek County, arrived in 1851. The Catholics among them were the families of Michael Gelice, Terrence McDonnell, Charles McLaughlin, and Barney Sutton. Before any church could be built visiting missionaries celebrated Mass in the homes of Michael Gelice and Patrick Nolan. The village of Bluffton, prosperous for those times, sprang up on the banks of the Upper Iowa River, where the first post office opened in 1855. In 1858 Patrick Nolan donated land for a church, and the log structure was dedicated to Saint Bridget, as most of the pioneers were either from Ireland or had Irish ancestors."<br /><br /> - Rev. Msgr. Edgar Kurt, "Parish Profile #162," <em>The Witness</em>, February 18, 1990.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:tableOfContents><![CDATA[LETTERS TO PARISHIONERS (4 documents)<br />
PARISH HISTORY (3 documents)<br />
PRIEST INFORMATION (2 documents)<br />
<br />
Unknown author. “The Archdiocese of Dubuque.” Income form. 1995-2007. Unknown date.]]></dcterms:tableOfContents>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[The Archdiocese of Dubuque. <br />
The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College. ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[ Loras College<br />
 Kucera Center for Catholic Thought <br />
 Frank and Ida Goedken Series: &quot;Spiritual Life in the Upper Mississippi River Valley&quot;<br />
]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Burback, Emily. Burns, Daniel. Gibson, Michael. Oberfoell, Carol. Waldmeir, Helen. Waldmeir, John. ]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English. ]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Various primary and secondary sources. ]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[1858-<br />
History of the parish over the span of 160 years, including information about its priests and parishioners. ]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/show/5706">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[St. Boniface (Garwin, Iowa)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA["The second half of the nineteenth century saw many immigrants come to Iowa from the Slavic areas of Europe. A large portion of them settled in Cedar Rapids and along the rail lines extending from Cedar Rapids to Marshalltown. Czechs built the first Catholic churches in Norway, Chelsea, and Toledo, and the smaller communities in the area known as the Bohemian Hills of Benton and Marshall Counties. The Garwin area Catholics claimed Saint Boniface Church at Toledo as their parish until they could build a church of their own at Garwin." <br /><br />-Rev. Msgr. Edgar Kurt, Parish Profile #200<em>, <i>The Witness</i>, </em>November 18, 1990.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[The Archdiocese of Dubuque. <br />
The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College. ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[ Loras College<br />
 Kucera Center for Catholic Thought <br />
 Frank and Ida Goedken Series: &quot;Spiritual Life in the Upper Mississippi River Valley&quot;<br />
]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Burback, Emily. Burns, Daniel. Gibson, Michael. Oberfoell, Carol. Waldmeir, Helen. Waldmeir, John. ]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English. ]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Various primary and secondary sources. ]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[1864-<br />
History of the parish over the span of 154 years, including information about its priests and parishioners. ]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/show/5707">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[St. Columbkille (Dubuque, Iowa)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA["When Saint Columbkille Parish was officially erected on May 24, 1997, the newly appointed pastor Father John R. Fogarty did not have to look for parishioners and buildings. The residents of West Hill welcomed Bishop John J. Hennessy’s decree providing them with their own parish and pastor. After years of going to the Cathedral, they had been celebrating Mass for some years with the Cathedral priests in the Presentation Sisters’ school. Father Thomas O’Reilly celebrated the first Mass in the temporary school on Bryant Street on September 21, 1879. After the school moved to the Rush Street location, the first Mass there was on the following December 14. The Sisters arranged to have Mass said regularly in the makeshift church inside the combination school and convent. Thirteen years after his ordination, Father Fogarty came as founding pastor to stay for almost a quarter century."<br /><br /> - Rev. Msgr. Edgar Kurt, "Parish Profile #126," <em>The Witness,</em> May 28, 1989.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:tableOfContents><![CDATA[BULLETIN (1 document)<br /> COMMEMORATIVE ITEMS (3 items) <br />HISTORY (2 documents)<br /> LEGAL DOCUMENTS (2 documents)<br />MISSION REMEMBRANCE CARD (1 document) <br />PASTORS AND VOCATIONS (2 documents) <br />PARISH ARTICLES AND NEWSLETTERS (9 documents)<br /><br /> Hawes, Cetus J. “History of Saint Columbkille’s Parish, 1887-1962.” 9 June, 1962.<br /><br /> Kurt, Edgar. “Parish Profile #126: Saint Columbkille Parish, Dubuque.” Dubuque: <em>The Witness</em>, 28 May, 1989.]]></dcterms:tableOfContents>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[The Archdiocese of Dubuque. <br />
The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College. ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[ Loras College<br />
 Kucera Center for Catholic Thought <br />
 Frank and Ida Goedken Series: &quot;Spiritual Life in the Upper Mississippi River Valley&quot;<br />
]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Burback, Emily. Burns, Daniel. Gibson, Michael. Oberfoell, Carol. Waldmeir, Helen. Waldmeir, John. ]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English. ]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Various primary and secondary sources. ]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[1997-<br />
History of the Parish over the span of 21 years, including information about its priests and parishioners. ]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/show/5708">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[St. Francis (Dumont, Iowa) ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA["Before any Catholic church was built in Dumont, priests from neighboring parishes ministered to the Catholics of the area. Four Ackley pastors are especially remembered, Father Peter O’Dowd, D. H. Murphy, Lawrence H. Burns, and Michael A. Meagher. Father McCormick is mentioned in old histories of the parish, but he cannot be identified in the Archives of the Archdiocese. “Mass was said in the prairie homes of staunch defenders of the faith, many of whom hailed from Canada, some from the banks of the Rhine and others from the land of destiny—the Isle of the sea,” according to Father James M. Ryan, who was in charge of Dumont in the 1800s. Those words and the following were published in a calendar in 1902."<br /><br /> - Rev. Edgar Kurt, "Parish Profile #152," Dubuque:<em> The Witness,</em>&nbsp; 3 December 1989.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:tableOfContents><![CDATA[CLOSING DOCUMENTS (2 documents)<br />
FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS (2 documents)<br />
HISTORY (4 documents)<br />
<br />
Bannon, James. “Official Bond” contract for the payment of five hundred dollars. 24 February, 1923.<br />
<br />
Kurt, Edgar. “St. Francis Church; Dumon, Iowa; 1990.” Cover for parish directory. 12 November, 1990.<br />
<br />
Unknown author(s). List of priests ministering, 1943-circa 1962. Unknown date.]]></dcterms:tableOfContents>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[The Archdiocese of Dubuque.<br />
The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College. ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[ Loras College<br />
 Kucera Center for Catholic Thought <br />
 Frank and Ida Goedken Series: &quot;Spiritual Life in the Upper Mississippi River Valley&quot;<br />
]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Burback, Emily. Burns, Daniel. Gibson, Michael. Oberfoell, Carol. Waldmeir, Helen. Waldmeir, John. ]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English. ]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Various primary and secondary sources. ]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[1890-<br />
The history of the parish over the span of 128 years, including information about its priests and parishioners. ]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description></rdf:RDF>
