Lasallian Biographical Sketches / A Translation (with some additional examples) of Circular Number 345, 15th December, 1954, 26 August 2019

In this booklet are anecdotes and stories involving international Christian Brothers, over time, whose biographical sketches (necrologies) showed how they coped with challenges to their vocation, or to severe illness, or to persecution, or with mortality itself. The research is based upon many Notices Necrologiques over the decades. In ArchivesSpace, the names of these Brothers and locations are specified.

Lasallian Biographical Sketches This booklet is a translation of Institute Circular Number 345, dated December 15, 1954 This booklet was published in Rome by the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Of interest in this 50-page booklet are anecdotes and stories involving international Christian Brothers, over time, whose biographical sketches (necrologies) showed how they coped with challenges to their vocation, or to severe illness, or to persecution, or with mortality itself. The research is based upon many Notices Necrologiques over the decades.

The following Brothers are mentioned by name:

Bro. Christophe (France), p. 1 Bro. Venanzio-Andrea (Visitor of Rome), p. 2. Early Brothers in the Institute (Brothers Boulette, Maurice, Jean Francois, and Henry

Lheureux), p. 6 Other early Brothers in the Institute (Brothers Barthelemy (Superior General), Joseph,

Irenee, Jean Henry, Dominique, Louis, and Stanislas [sic]), p. 6 Bro. Guillaume de Jesus (Superior General), p. 7 Bro. Philip (Superior General), p. 7 Bro. Agathon, p. 7 Brothers Roger, Uldaric, and Leon (martyrs from the Rochefort hulks during French Revolution), p. 7 Bro. Solomon (martyr), p. 7 Bro. Abraham, p. 7 Brothers Francois de Jesus, Frumence, Maurille, Jonas, and Eunuce, pp. 7-8 Bro. Gabriel Marie (Superior General), pp. 9 and 37 Monsieur Georges Rigault (historian), p. 10 Brothers Xanthin Leonard, Angilbert Joseph, Clementien Pierre, and Marcien de la

Croix, p. 14. Bro. Xanthin Leonard reappears on p. 17. Bro. Marie Victorin (Canada botanist), p. 14; 25-26; 29-30 and 34 Bro. Melage (Belgian poet), p. 14 "I. de Cice," [sic], p. 14 Bro. Goffredo (founder of Rivista Lasalliana), p. 14 Bro. Abban Philip (Assistant Superior General), pp. 16 and 35 and 36 Bro. Benildus Patrick, p. 16 Bro. Hermanius (of Clermont, France), p. 16 Bro. Eliphus Cletus (Joseph Gallagher) (Baltimore District), p. 17 Bro. Gordian Faber (Robert Costello) (Baltimore District), p. 17. Bro. Mutien Marie, pp. 17 and 38 Bro. Adilbert-Jean, p. 18 Bro. Thomas Hyacinthe (Vietnam), pp. 18-19 Bro. Dominique-Marcel, p. 19 Bro. Rafael Jose, Exuperio, Antonio Gil, Felix Adriano, Elias Paulino (Spanish Civil

War), p. 19. Bro. Jaime Hilario (Spanish Civil War), p. 20 Bro. Eladio Vicente (Spanish Civil War), p.20 Bro. Agapio Modesto (Spanish Civil War), p. 20 Bro. Francisco (Spanish Civil War), p. 20 Bro. Raimundo Bernabe (Spanish Civil War), p. 20 Bro. Francesco di Maria (Italian Assistant Superior General), p. 20 Bro. Asclepiades Henri, p. 20 Bro. Stephen Lewis (Stephen Loo) (Southeast Asia), p. 21 Bro. Ulderico (Carmine Venditti), pp. 21-22 Bro. Vincent Hoa (Vietnam), pp. 22-23 Bro. Benjamin Leon (Spanish Civil War), pp. 23-24 Bro. Arturo (Spanish Civil War), p. 24 Bro. Leobert, calligraphist in France, p. 24 Brothers at the Boarding School of Our Lady of Le Puy (France), p. 25. Bro. Jean-Marie (Passy-Froyennes, France), p. 25 Bro. Benito de Jesus (Spanish Civil War), p. 26 Bro. Perseverance, p. 26 Bro. Leon de Jesus, p.26 Bro. Ulfin (Director of Chambery), p. 26 Bro. Benildus (also spelled Benilde), p. 27 Bro. Macoratus, p. 27 Bro. Ermenold (Director of Santiago Chile), p. 27 Bro. Benezet Thomas (Assistant Superior General), pp. 27-28 Bro. Arnould (Director of Novitiate at Rheims), p. 28 Bro. Alejo Andres (Spanish Civil War), p. 28 Bro. Francois de Paule (World War II), p. 29 Bro. Cassian Bernard (World War I), p. 29 Bro. Adelino Miguel (Cuba), p. 30 Bro. Lodewijk (Belgium), p. 30 Bro. Novatien Privat (France), p. 30 Bro. Donatien Andre (France), pp. 30-31 Bro. Alpert, p. 31 Bro. Alfred Patrick (New York District), p. 31 Bro. Senary Lucien (Spain), p. 31 Bro. Methodien, p. 32 Bro. Angulin Francois, p. 32 Bro. Olympe Henri, p. 32 Bro. Gregory Jerome (John McManus) (Baltimore District), p. 32 Bro. Enrico di Gesu, pp. 32-33 Bro. Aubert Charles, p. 33 Bro. Berardus Julien (France), pp. 33-34 Bro. Alphonse-Benoit (France or Southeast Asia), p. 34 Bro. Peter Nolasco (Southeast Asia), p. 34 Bro. Gall, pp. 34-35 Brothers Willibald Bruno and Goffredo, p. 35 Bro. Reposit, p. 35 Bro. Netere Leon, pp. 35-36 Bro. Rothaldus (Canada), pp. 36-37 Brothers Helene-Geraud and Helene-Joseph, p. 45 Bro. Afrodisio, p. 45 Bro. Magloire Robert (Canada), p. 46 Bro. Conrad, p. 46 Bro. Marie Leon, pp. 46-47 Bro. Atilano Jose (Spanish Civil War), p. 47 Bro. Everiste Alfred, p. 47 Bro. Teodoreto, p. 48 Bro. Incard-Cyprien, p. 48 Bro. Moise Clovis (Canada), p. 48. Bro. Geric, p. 48 Bro. Optat de Jesus, p. 48

Compiled by Brother Joseph Grabenstein, October 14, 2015; revised by Brother Rob Wilsbach, 21 August 2019

Information about the Baltimore District Brothers within this booklet (Brothers Abban Philip [Gagnon]; Eliphus Cletus [Gallagher]; Gordian Faber [Costello]; and Gregory Jerome [McManus]) have been photocopied and placed into their personal files.

This book is an amazing collection of anecdotes and stories regarding Brothers during the French Revolution, World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II., plus anecdotes about Bro. Marie-Victorin and others.