St. Stanislaus Parish, Nashua

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St. Stanislaus Parish
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St. Stanislaus Parish, Nashua
42°45′48.6″N71°28′9.3″W / 42.763500°N 71.469250°W / 42.763500; -71.469250
Location5 Green Street
Nashua, New Hampshire
Country United States
Denomination Catholic Church (Latin Church)
Website www.latinmassnashua.org
History
Status Parish church
Founded1908 (1908)
Founder(s) Polish immigrants
Dedication St. Stanislaus
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Style Roman
Years built1909
Construction cost$23,000
Administration
Province Boston
Diocese Manchester
Deanery Souhegan
Parish Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter
Clergy
Bishop(s) Peter Libasci
Pastor(s) John Brancich, FSSP Anthony Rice, SJC, William Rock, FSSP

St. Stanislaus Parish is a Catholic parish of the Diocese of Manchester, located in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States.

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The first parish at the site was established in 1908 for Polish immigrants by Bishop George Albert Guertin. The current parish was founded in 2016 by Bishop Peter Anthony Libasci and dedicated to observing the Tridentine Mass and other liturgical rites in use prior to Vatican II.

History

Polish-American parish

St. Stanislaus Parish was founded in 1908 as a Catholic parish designated for Polish immigrants. It was one of the Polish-American "national parishes" in the Diocese of Manchester.

Polish immigration to New Hampshire began in the years 1854-1870, and increased from 1870 to 1910. [1] According to a parish history produced in 1958, early Polish immigrants in Nashua worshipped at Immaculate Conception Church, the first parish in the city, a predominantly Irish-American church on Temple Street; it was later renamed St. Casimir Church around 1910. [2] An organization of lay people, named for Polish king Jan III Sobieski, was founded in March 1907, and petitioned Manchester bishop George Albert Guertin for a parish church of their own. Five petitioners created a civil corporation for the purpose of "building and maintaining a church of the Roman Catholic denomination" under the name "Polish Church of St. Stanislaw" on September 26, 1907. [3] The request was approved by Bishop Guertin on April 19, 1908, giving the parish the title St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr, in honor of the eleventh-century Stanislaus of Szczepanów. [2] [1]

The parish's first pastor, Rev. John Mard, was only able to serve three months due to poor health. His successor, Rev. Francis Taborski, succeeded in raising $5,000 to buy a property on Franklin Street. Construction of the church started in early 1909 and finished before the end of the year. Pews for the church were purchased from a former Free Will Baptist church a few blocks away. [2]

During the pastorate of Rev. Louis Wojtys from 1910 to 1915, the church was dedicated, a hall was built to house a parish school and community events, and eight acres of land were bought in 1914 for a cemetery. [4]

In 1927, Bishop Guertin entrusted the parish to the Missionaries of La Salette. [1] The new pastor, Fr. Joseph Piszczalka, M.S., who served at St. Stanislaus from 1926 to 1948, set to work renovating the church and rectory: the parish installed electricity in the church and the hall, finished paying its mortgage (1927), and began work on its parish cemetery. A school was begun in 1929. In the parish's 25th anniversary year, 1933, it numbered over 1000 individuals and 190 families. [4]

Starting in 1938, a group of Felician Sisters was assigned to the parish to provide religious instruction to the children, and also taught the Polish language. [4]

During World War II, almost 200 young people from the parish served in the United States armed forces. Eight died in service, and the parish honored them in 1945 by erecting a chapel and monument in the St. Stanislaus Cemetery. [4]

Merger

The parish was unified with St. Aloysius of Gonzaga Parish in 2002, and the sacramental records of the Polish-American parish were transferred to St. Aloysius of Gonzaga Parish. After the merger, St. Stanislaus Church remained open as a eucharistic adoration chapel [2] staffed by Missionary Sisters Servants of the Word. [5] A food bank also was established in the church basement. [2]

Personal parish for traditional liturgy

On May 20, 2016, Most Reverend Peter A. Libasci, the Bishop of Manchester, announced that a new St. Stanislaus Parish would be established at the church, entrusted to the care of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter and dedicated to the celebration of the Tridentine Mass. [6] Services of the new parish community began in August 2016. [7]

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  1. 1 2 3 Wilfrid H. Paradis (1998). Upon This Granite: Catholicism in New Hampshire, 1647-1997. p. 112. ISBN   9780914339762 . Retrieved August 16, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Dean Shalhoup (April 30, 2011). "Beauty of beloved church still available to one and all". Nashua Telegraph. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
  3. ↑ Office of the Secretary of State (NH) (1908). "Report of the Secretary of State". Reports, vol. 1. p. 87. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "50 years at St. Stanislaus, 1908-1958". Goulet Printing Co. 1958. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
  5. ↑ Jessica A. Botelho (February 14, 2014). "Evangelization top priority for visiting nuns". Rhode Island Catholic. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Saint Stanislaus Parish in Nashua to reopen". Diocese of Manchester. May 20, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  7. ↑ Michael Casey (August 7, 2016). "Parish set to offer traditional Latin Mass". Foster's Daily Democrat (AP). Retrieved August 16, 2016.

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