St. Stanislaus is an active parish community founded in 1891; that is, ministered by the Conventual Franciscan Friars of the Province of St. Anthony of Padua, the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Assisi; and the Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph
Founding of the Parish. St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Parish was founded and financed by farsighted, hard-worked, and devout Polish immigrants who had arrived in Chicopee in the 1880âs. The young Poles were determined to establish and finance their own church in which they could worship in their own native language, espouse their Polish customs and traditions which they valued highly, and...