Br. Anthimian

John  Damnon was born on October 10, 1818, in Monchard, France.  He entered the Novitiate on April 20, 1843,  at Lyon at the age of twenty-five already educated and an experienced  teacher.  There he received the habit  and the religious name of Brother Anthimian.   He was soon sent to the boarding school at Lyon and eventually spent  sixteen years there teaching mathematics and fulfilling his duties as  Director.  In 1860 he was named  Director of the house of Villefranche-sur-Saone.  Brother Philip, Superior General, sent him  to Montreal where he was appointed Director.   He was sent to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1870 as Director and  returned there in 1873 after serving at the College in Pass Christian,  Mississippi, as procurator, Sub-Director and then Director from 1871-73.  He was Master of Novices at Carondelet in  1874 but one year later he was called home to France due to poor health and  resided at the Motherhouse in Paris where he died at age sixty-one, having been  a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty-six years.