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Our Lady of the Angels Marion290 N. North Garden St., Marion

Sunday Masses: 9 a.m. (Traditional Latin), 11 a.m. (English) and 7 p.m. (Spanish)

Father William McShea, a priest who lived at the Hickory Hotel in the mid-1940s, traveled to Morgan, 22 miles from Marion, each Sunday to celebrate Mass in the home of a non-Catholic family. Later, his successor traveled to Marion to celebrate the first Mass there in the county courthouse on Jan. 21, 1951.

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