Jesuit missionaries looked after the faithful in the Mulberry area with very infrequent visits by Father Eugene Bononcini from 1877 to 1881. The Silvestrine Benedictine priests from Frontenac also served Mulberry as a mission as early baptismal records indicate in 1892. They were followed in service by the Capuchin Fathers, also from Frontenac until 1950 when the parish was turned over to diocesan priests. Father Clifford Landis was the first pastor taking care of Arma and Capaldo in addition to St. Gabriel’s.

Parish property was purchased prior to 1915 with the first frame church going up at a cost of $4,583.49. The Extension Society contributed $500 to the project. Mother Nature wiped it all out in 1919 in the form of a lightning storm.

A new church was dedicated by Monsignor Bernard Schmiehausen on June 5, 1921. The long suffering parishioners awoke the morning of December 14, 1959 to find their church had again burned to the ground.

Not to be deterred, Father Colin Boor and his flock built a third church, keeping costs to $30,000 because of all the donated labor. Again the Extension Society figured largely in the picture with a generous donation of $10,000.

Father John Reinkemeyer came in 1961 and saw to the construction of a new parish hall the following year. (excerpt from The Catholic Diocese of Wichita Centennial, 1987)

He was succeeded by Fathers James Spexarth, Raymond Whelan, Charles Middleton, Philip Bradley, David O’Leary and Andrew Seiler. The church was closed in 1993 and the parishioners were assumed by St. Joseph’s in Arma. Sacramental records are kept in the Parish Office at St. Michael’s in Girard.