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Historical documents pertaining to the history of Saint Matthias parish in Cascade, Iowa.

"On April 8, 1928, Father Joseph F. Wiehl and three members of his parish in Chester drove through muddy roads to nearby McIntire in the northeast corner of Mitchell County. There he celebrated the Easter Mass with more than one hundred faithful of…

"The advent of the Chicago Northwestern Railroad with its shops attracted some to Belle Plaine, and the fertile farm land brought others to the area. As more Catholics arrived, Sunday Mass outgrew private homes and the public school was used until…

“The Catholics of Nashua in Chickasaw County bought property and built a church in 1868. Before that, Mass was celebrated in the homes of the O’Donnells and the Doughertys. After forty years as a mission, the parish received its first resident pastor…

“The first Catholics in Norway area were of Czech heritage, and the first priests came to minister to them in their own language. Father Anthony D. Urban visited them while pastor of Spillville and celebrated the first Mass in the area in 1865 in the…

"For Saint Michael’s first century we rely somewhat on an anonymous history brought up to date in 1987, but probably begun many years earlier. That history states that two Czechs, Albert Cobeen and Frank Yarick started to build a church. Lacking…

A German plane with a German Iron Cross on the lower left wing is crashed on the ground and in flames. Most of the outer covering of the plane is burnt and no longer there, while a few pieces on the back and left upper and lower wings is still not…

St. Nicholas appears as a vague white figure in a red background. The gold in his outfit is very detailed.

St. Nicholas is placing a little statue of a man wearing a top hat on a porch step of a brick house. He is also holding a large staff and there are a pair of shoes in front on the statue of the man with a top hat.

History of the St. Nicholas church and parish of Spruce Creek, Iowa