Br. Firmian Thomas

Brother Firmian's first assignment was at St. Bridget's School in Chicago in 1875. Although an infirmity confined him to moving from place to place on crutches for most of his life, he was assigned to the Orphanage at Feehanville in 1883 and remained there until 1889. There he taught class, did the accounting work, was in charge of the laundry, acted as nurse for the orphans and Brothers and was head of a small printery there until 1904 when he moved to the Community of Ancients at Glencoe, Missouri. For the last three years of his life he was confined to his room where he was carried to chapel once a week to attend Mass with his Brothers. He died at age fifty-three, during his thirty-third year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.