Br. Candidian

John  Howard was born in 1838 in Ireland and emigrated to the United States where  he entered the Novitiate at Montreal at age sixteen.  There he received the habit and religious  name of Brother Candidian.  We know  little of his tour of duty except that he was the first Brother to teach in  Chicago when he served as Director of old St. Patrick's Academy at Adams  & Desplaines.  He died at age  seventy-two having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-six  years.