The first resident priest (Rev. Michael McCabe) arrived in Danielson in 1850 and offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the first time in Danielson at a private residence. Rev. Michael McCabe was called to his reward in 1859. The new priest who was assigned built a church and the rectory in Moosup and his successor took up the residency in there, which made Danielson a mission of Moosup.

Rev. James A. Princen took up the residence in Danielson and on the first day of September1869 St. James parish was re-established (in the official records of the diocese 1870). And later in 1874 Fr. Princen also established St. James School. Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambery, France arrived in Danielson to serve at St. James School in the year 1889. La Salette Missionaries from France took over St. James Parish on December 08 in 1895. Rev. Clovis M. Socquet, the first La Salette to be assigned as pastor of St. James. Rev. C.P. Bedard and Rev. Pierre Roux, M.S assisting in the parish as curates.

In 1900, fifty years after the arrival of the first resident priest in Danielson; the new completely organized parish of St. James, with its new church was in place. Today, St. James Parish celebrate the “Sesquicentennial” (150) Jubilee of its official establishment and the “Quasquicentennial” (125) Jubilee of the presence of La Salette Missionaries in the parish.