Br. Caesarius of Mary

Brother Caesarius was the last of the dozens of missionary Brothers from Ireland who devoted their careers to the work of the St. Louis District.  One of seven children he entered the Juniorate on April 20, 1909 at Castletown, Ireland, and two years later entered the Novitiate there on July 11, 1911.  He spent his Scholasticate years in three different locations, in 1912 at Lembecq-les-Hal, Belgium, 1913 he traveled to the United States and came to Pocantico Hills, New York, and spent his last year, 1914, at Glencoe, Missouri.  He received his Ph.B from the University of Chicago in 1927 and his M.A. Degree from the University of Minnesota in 1937.  Caesarius began his fifty year teaching career at Cotter High School in Winona, Minnesota, in 1914.  He moved on to teach at De La Salle Institute in Chicago, Christian Brothers' High School in St. Joseph, Missouri, De La Salle High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Cathedral High School in Duluth, Minnesota, Christian Brothers High School in St. Louis, Missouri and the last twenty-four years of his teaching career, at St. Mel High School in Chicago, Illinois.  He retired from the classroom in 1964 and spent the majority of his retirement years at the Brothers’ Community at Lockport, Illinois. In mid January of 1982 he suffered a stroke and on January 23rd he died at age eighty-six and in his seventieth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother and missionary to the United States.

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