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“Parishioners of Mason City’s second Catholic parish gathered with their founding pastor, Father Edward J. Dougherty, in the public library for their first Mass on an October Sunday in 1908. Construction of the church began the following spring and…

"When Father Henry P. Rohlman, a member of the Archdiocesan Mission Band, conducted a two weeks’ mission in a borrowed church in January 1909, the area Catholics decided to form a parish. Before Father Rohlman left Rockford, the people appointed Paul…

Historical documents pertaining to the history of Holy Family parish in New Hampton, Iowa.

“Holy Family Parish owes its beginning and many years of its existence to its close neighbors, the monks of New Melleray Abbey. Because the people had little funds and the monastery wished to help them have their own church, one of the monks appealed…

Mary in an orange robe and white head wrap sits on a rock with a naked baby Jesus on her lap. Joseph in green and white stands behind them to the right. To the left, there are two standing angels and one sitting, who sings or reads from a book. Two…

The card features a white, pink, and blue-robed Mary, holding the baby Jesus. Joseph is beside them, carrying a walking stick and looking out over the landscape to the right of the card while shading his eyes. Behind them is a donkey. The background…

The card depicts the small figures of Joseph, Mary, and baby Jesus beside a donkey and ruined colums under the night sky. Holly clusters and a star border it on either side, and below is printed: "A Joyful Christmas / Let naught dismay, / For Christ…

In a stable, Mary in red and white holds a naked baby Jesus. Joseph in blue stands behind her. In front of them kneels a shepherd with a crook, dressed in brown. There is a cow next to the people. The card is on a white, gold, and holly background…

The baby Jesus lays in a straw-bedded manger. Mary, dressed in red and dark blue with a golden head wrap and halo, is either picking him up from the manger or laying him down. Joseph, in deep red and green with a golden halo as well, stands over…

"As the “north end” of Dubuque grew during the 1880s, Archbishop John Hennessy found it necessary to establish Sacred Heart Parish. Continued growth in that area inspired the Archbishop to found another parish, Holy Ghost, on Central Avenue. Holy…