Saint Pius V Parish

Saint Pius V was originally founded in 1874 as a Jesuit parish serving a primarily Irish community. However, the Jesuits left in the 1880s. Diocesan priests cared for the congregation till 1925 when the Dominican’s took responsibility for the parish. Around this time the community shifted to a predominantly Polish population till the late 1950s. In the 1950s the demographic shifted again, this time to primarily Spanish speaking congregation. The current structure was finished in 1893 after nine years of construction, designed in a Romanesque Revival style by James Egan. It was then modified in 1939 to better accommodate the needs of the Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus which had been built in 1929 in response to the stock market crash.