December 20, 1840 – Iowa City’s first Catholic Mass is celebrated by frontier missionary, Rev. Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli. It is attended by 28 people in a building that doubled as a private home and a hotel owned by Ferdinand Haberstroh.

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