Br. Albinus Peter

Arthur Graves was born on October 15, 1887, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At age nineteen he sought admission to the Brothers and was sent to make his novitiate at Pocantico Hills, New York, in 1906. Upon completion of his year there he was assigned to teach at Hartford, Connecticut, and later at St. John's in Utica and St. James in Brooklyn, New York. In 1918 he requested permission to go to the missions and was assigned to De La Salle College in Manila in the Republic of the Philippines, where he remained for twenty-five years. He spent thirteen years teaching at the Novitiate there and retired to Green Hills in the Philippines in 1964. He died of heart failure in his adopted country at age eighty-one, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty-two years.