Br. Adrian Farrell

Bernard  Himmenkamp was born in Westphalia, Allemagne, on December 9, 1848.  At the urging of his older brother, who was  a Christian Brother already, Bernard entered the Novitiate in Carondelet on  the 13th of August 1873.  There he  received the robe and the religious name of Brother Adrian Farrell on  November 1, 1873.  He was assigned to  St. Vincent's School in St. Louis, Missouri, to teach and it was there that  toward the middle of May 1881, he became aware of a serious blood disease  which would cause his premature death at age thirty-three, having been a De  la Salle Christian Brother for only eight years