Br. Firmilian Jude

As a youth, Joseph emigrated to the United States with his parents and began his life as a religious at age twenty-nine when he entered the Brothers' novitiate at Carondelet, Missouri, in 1868. He began his teaching career in the primary classes at Detroit and in 1870 at the Brothers' school in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1876 and 1878 he taught in St. Paul, Minnesota, and at the boarding school at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. He then moved to New York where he would spend the remainder of his teaching career in schools and communities in Hoboken, New York City and Utica. It was at Utica in 1907 that his suffering from kidney difficulties caused his death on January 27th at age sixty-seven and in his thirty-ninth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.