Br. Cletus Bernward

Brother Cletus Bernward, the son of Martin and Ellen Conroy Mullen, was born on December 10, 1841, at Errill in Leinster, Ireland. He entered the Novitiate at Carondelet at age 30 in July of 1871. In 1872 he was assigned to St. Joseph's in New Orleans where he arrived in the middle of the yellow fever epidemic. In 1874 he moved to St. Louis where for the next nine years he taught at St. Malachy, St. John's, Christian Brothers College and Carondelet. In 1880 he moved to Chicago and in 1883 to serve as "econome" for the orphanage at Feehanville. In March of 1906 he was assigned to the school in Bernalillo, New Mexico. In 1919 illness and age forced his retirement in the Community of Ancients at Glencoe, Missouri. He died on February 4, 1920, at age seventy-nine and in his forty-ninth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.