 For decades, the towering spires of the many Protestant and Roman Catholic churches dominated the city's skyline.Most of the numerous Catholic churches were established to serve one of the many ethnic communities that made up Pittston.The Irish had St. John the Evangelist and St. Mary Help of Christians, the Slovaks had St. John the Baptist, the Lithuanians had St. Casimir's, the Germans had St. Mary Assumption, and the Italians had St. Rocco's and Our Lady of Mount Carmel.