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““In 1853-54 I offered Mass in Cedar Rapids,” wrote Father Mathias Hannon of Iowa City. “I was the first priest to say Mass there.” The Mass Father Hannon celebrated in the Dubuque House, a small hotel, was the beginning of Immaculate Conception…

"The first European settlers in the Castle Grove area of Jones County were of Irish origin, arriving about 1846. They were visited regularly by Father Jeremiah Trecy from Garryowen on his missionary circuit. Then they were visited by Father Patrick…

"Father Scallan directed the building of a church, probably in 1880. Patrick and Bridget Farrell deeded four acres of their farm to the Diocese of Dubuque on May 25, 1880, a year after they had purchased it. The Centennial History of the Archdiocese…

"Father Bernard W. Coyle of Waverly is reputed to have celebrated the first Mass in the Allison community in the 1880s. He continued to care for the Catholics there on his many journeys. The further accounts of the parish’s beginning are confusing.…

The card is taken up by the leaves and pink blossoms of clover. The print in the upper left reads "Four Leaved Clover / Be mine."

Residents of “the black floor” watching a football game together

In a golden canopied bed lies a figure in white with long brown hair, possibly a man or woman. Behind the bed, a priest in black and another male figure pray and speak to them. In the foreground, the pope dressed in red is seated on a chair next to…

Father Christmas in an ice-covered blue hood in the upper-right hand corner. Holly leaves. In the lower-left is an frozen lake that some people are walking on, across which is a church.

The card depicts the snowy bank of a lake with a brilliant orange and red sunset on the far shore. Two full trees and a broken one line the bank where a lone figure is skating on the ice.