Br. Celerinus Andrew

Andrew  Welmst Rappeaux was born on September 15, 1848, and was taught by the  Brothers in Saint Louis, Missouri.  He  entered the Novitiate at Carondelet and received the habit there on July 26,  1868.  A rich uncle twice offered him  $100,000 and a palatial residence in St. Louis if he would leave the  Congregation.  Brother Celerinus Andrew  spurned both offers with great indignation.   His first teaching assignment took him to Chicago at St. Mel's.  He later served in Washington, D.C.,  Baltimore, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.  He died on December 31, 1923, at age  seventy-five, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-five  years.