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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…

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…

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…

“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…

Historical documents pertaining to the history of Holy Family parish in New Hampton, Iowa.

"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…

“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…

"Although Holy Cross Parish began with a resident pastor in 1928, it has been served by neighboring pastors during most of its history. The Catholics of the area had longed for a parish of their own. Perhaps Father Thomas Ballon, pastor of Vining in…

Historical documents pertaining to Holy Cross parish in Keystone, Iowa.

“Holy Cross is one of several parishes that began about the same time. Bishop Mathias Loras mentions in an 1842 letter that he was called to the Sweeney home in Concord Township to minister to a dying man. While there, he was asked to bless some…