Br. Arnold of Jesus

William  Freuin was born in Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland, on December 15, 1832.  He was six years old when his family  emigrated to New York City.  A younger  brother, Michael, became Brother Volusian in 1853 at the Montreal Novitiate  but after teaching for two years he died of pneumonia.  William entered the Novitiate at Montreal  on May 5, 1854, at age twenty-two.  In  June he received the habit and religious name of Arnold of Jesus.  After teaching at St. Patrick's (1854-1856)  and St. Bridget's Schools (1856-1863) in Montreal, he was appointed to St.  Joseph's School as Director in Kingston, Ontario, (1863-1867).  He was honored there as the "person who did the most to establish peace between  Orangemen and Catholics in the area."  Brother Arnold was appointed Director at De  La Salle Institute in Toronto where he enlarged the school.  He remained there for eleven years before  being appointed Director of St. Anne's School in Toronto where he began  special vocational classes and a night school for young workers.  In 1895 he was appointed to Christian  Brothers College in St. Louis, Missouri, as Inspector of Classes.  He spent 1902-04 in retirement at CBC in  St. Joseph, Missouri and in 1904 moved to Glencoe, Missouri, where he died at  age seventy-two, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty years