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History of the St. James church and parish in Sunnyside, Iowa.

"In 1870 Father Clement Lowery went to visit Stone City from his Cedar Rapids parish. He celebrated Mass, administered baptism, and instructed the children of the French, German, and Irish immigrants, who had been attracted to work in the quarries.…

History of the St. Joseph church and parish in Stark Settlement, Iowa.

History of the St. Joseph church and parish in Rhodes, Iowa.

"All Saint Parish, Rowley, was established by Father William Leen after he became a pastor of Walker in 1894. After the Rowley Catholics built the church in 1896 at his direction, Father Leen continued to care for the Walker parish and three…

"Two years after Father Thomas J. Conroy returned from his World War II role as military chaplain he was appointed pastor of Sacred Heart Parish at Osage. The first Mass in the new church was celebrated on the morning of September 8, 1951. The…

"When there were enough Catholics settled in and around the town of St. Anthony, they built a church in the town in 1893 and named it for the Sacred Heart. Father John McMahon became the first resident pastor of St. Anthony and celebrated the first…

"The first church in western Howard County was Saint Patrick Church at Cecelia built in 1860 on a plot given by James Roche. Made of logs, it measured 16 by 21 feet and stood in the present cemetery. For some years before, Mass had been celebrated in…

"Saint Theresa Parish began with the acquisition of forty acres of land, as did so many of the rural parishes of the 1850s. This transaction in 1853 makes it the 14th parish in the history of the present territory of the Archdiocese of Dubuque. The…

"Archbishop Leo Binz established Queen of Heaven Parish in Reinbeck on July 19, 1955. Father John E. Graham, pastor of Immaculate Conception at Blessing, had conducted a survey of the area Catholics to determine their interest in forming a parish.…