Br. Cecilian

Pierre  Gadory was born in 1820 in Berthier, Canada.   At the age of thirty-three he entered the Novitiate in Montreal where  he received the robe and the religious name of Brother Cecilian.  He taught classes from 1853 to 1860 in New  York.  In 1858, Archbishop Kenrick of  St. Louis moved his seminarians from a building in Carondelet and it became  an orphanage for fifty children.   Brother Cecilian became the first Director in January 1860.  He was later replaced by Brother Polycarpus  of Mary and Brother Cecilian was named Director of the orphanage at Troy, New  York, where he spent the remainder of his life as Director, econome, infirmarian and builder  after a destructive fire leveled the building.  He died at the age of seventy-eight, having  been a De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-five years