Br. Cyril Pahl

Cyril  Pahl was born on January 29, 1918, the son of Herman and Dolores (St. Martin)  Pahl.  He attended De La Salle high  school but graduated from Maryknoll High School in Cincinnati.  He entered the Maryknoll community for  several years and studied in their major seminary in New York.  After leaving the seminary he worked as an  accountant for many years, before he entered the novitiate of the Christian  Brothers in 1985.  He pronounced his  first vows in 1986 and his perpetual vows in 1991.  He served at Dunrovin Retreat Center in  Marine-on St. Croix, MN, from 1986 to 1988 and at Cretin High School in St.  Paul from 1988 to 1993.  He then  retired to the Cretin-Hamline Community in St. Paul and transferred to the  Little Sisters of the Poor Holy Family Residence in 2009 where he died at age  ninety-one, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for almost  twenty-five years.