Br. Brithweld

Matthias  Frisch was born in 1822 in Germany and emigrated to the east coast of the  United States.  He sought admission to  the Institute in New York and was sent to the Novitiate in Montreal in 1852.  There he received the habit and religious  name of Brother Brithweld.  His first  assignment took him to St. Mary's Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana, and then  to Christian Brothers College in St. Louis, Missouri, where he taught  German.  Brother Brithweld was stricken  with a rheumatic illness and returned to New York and retired to the  community at Brooklyn.  There he died a  difficult death at age forty-two, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother  for twelve years.