St. Patrick (Colesburg, Iowa)

St. Patrick (Colesburg, Iowa)

“Bishop Mathias Loras purchased a site in 1854 for the first church in Colesburg in northeastern Delaware County. Before that time, visiting priests celebrated Mass in various homes for the Irish settlers, who came into the area as early as the 1840s, and that explains the choice of Saint Patrick for their patron. They built their first church about 1862 under Father Michael Lynch’s direction and it served until a replacement was built in 1877. Land for the cemetery was donated by John McMahon, probably in 1857 as the oldest tombstone bears that date.”

Rev. Msgr. Edgar Kurt, “Parish Profile #91: Saint Patrick Parish, Colesburg.” Dubuque: The Witness, 18 September 1988.

The Archdiocese of Dubuque.
The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College.

Loras College
Kucera Center for Catholic Thought
Frank and Ida Goedken Series: "Spiritual Life in the Upper Mississippi River Valley"

Burback, Emily. Burns, Daniel. Gibson, Michael. Oberfoell, Carol. Waldmeir, Helen. Waldmeir, John.

English.

Various primary and secondary sources.

Ca. 1952-
History of the parish over the span of 66 years, including information about its priests and parishioners.

Correspondence (1 document)
History (1 document)
History and Baptism Records (2 documents)
Photographs (3 documents)
Pastor cards (1 document)