Br. Flavian of Jesus

John Baum was born on January 24, 1849, in Cologne, Prussia, the son of Charles and Francisca Aufenbruch Baum. He emigrated to the United States and entered the Novitiate of the Brothers at Carondelet, Missouri, on June 13, 1876, at age twenty-seven and received the habit on August 15th and the religious name of Brother Flavian of Jesus. In December of that same year he was assigned to Christian Brothers College in Memphis where he taught in the primary grades. Four years later he was assigned to teach at Christian Brothers College in St. Louis but in November of that year he was assigned to St. Vincent School in St. Louis to teach in the sixth grade. He returned to CBC in Memphis in 1882 for the next six years before being assigned to teach in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1892 we again find him teaching in Memphis and he remained there until 1896 when he was transferred to Christian Brothers College in St. Joseph, Missouri, where he taught in the eighth grade. In 1901 he was assigned to St. Malachy's School in St. Louis but only one year later he was assigned to De La Salle Academy in Kansas City, Missouri. Brother Flavian remained there until 1908 and was named Sub-Director in 1907. He was not only a "capable teacher, he was a repair man, supervisor of servants and financier." He was assigned to De La Salle High School in Minneapolis in 1908 as Sub-director and in charge of the school office. He died there in 1924 at age seventy-five, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-eight years.