In the early 1950s Father John O'Brien and Brother Edward Mullen established the parish in Highland Heights, Ohio.
The founder of the Order of the Blessed Sacrament, Peter Julian Eymard, at the time had not yet been canonized a saint, a status he holds today.
Consequently, a student studying for the priesthood at the time suggested the parish be named after a Franciscan brother, St Paschal Baylon.
St Paschal's Feast Day is on May 17, a weekend the parish hosts a Spring Fling Festival to honor him.
The Congregation of Notre Dame Sisters (CND) were invited to help run the new school, which opened in 1955 with 321 students.
The Seminary existed in this building for five years, when due to surging numbers, the students and faculty of the SSS moved to John Carroll University.
To once again accommodate the growing population, Father O'Brien along with Architect Richard Fleischman a new church to be recognized as a lamp atop a hill in order to fulfill the scripture passage found in the Book of Matthew (5:14-15).