St. Marie Church was built in the 1890s by Monsignor Pierre Hevey of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. He was ordained in 1857, came to Lewiston, Maine in the 1870s, and eventually to Manchester in the early 1880s. A small Catholic enclave rose around St. Marie's over the next two decades, including a hospital, orphanage, rectory, and school. In addition, Monsignor Hevey is widely credited with founding the first credit union in the U.S. in 1908. He died in March 1909.
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