Br. Gaudinus John

Edward  and Mary Dougherty McCullough gave birth to their son, Eugene, on August 22,  1851, in Waterford, Ireland.  At age  fifteen he entered the Novitiate at Carondelet, Missouri, where he received  the habit and religious name of Brother Gaudinus John on July 1, 1866.  By September of that same year he had  arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana, to teach at St. Mary's Academy.  One year later he taught at St. Vincent's  School in the same city.  He contracted  the yellow fever in 1867 but survived.   In the fall of 1868 he showed signs of tuberculosis and returned to  Carondelet.  Brother Gaudinus John died  in November of 1869 at the at the age of eighteen, having been a De La Salle  Christian Brother for only three years.