Br. Honorius Patrick

When he arrived in the United States in early 1900, Brother Honorius Patrick already had begun his education at a junior seminary in Dublin, Ireland, and had a year of work as a secular behind him. He met the famous Brother Adjutor, Vocation Director, and later that same year entered the Brothers' Novitiate. His first three assignments in the classroom kept him in the St. Louis area at Christian Brothers College High School from 1902 to 1907, at St. Alphonsus (the Rock Church) School from 1907 to 1908, and as Director of St. Bridget's Community from 1908 to 1910. He received his B.A. degree from Christian Brothers College in St. Louis and his MA from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He spent three years, from 1910 to 1913, at Cretin High School in St. Paul, Minnesota and returned to St. Alphonsus in St. Louis for one year, 1913 to 1914 before being assigned to De La Salle High School in Chicago, Illinois. He served there from 1914 through 1918 and at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1926 to 1929, where he supervised the construction of the new high school building. His career as a teacher and principal brought him to St. Patrick's Academy in Chicago for three years from 1926 to 1929, St. George's in Evanston from 1930 to 1933, La Salle Institute in Glencoe, Missouri, from 1933 to 1936 and back to St. Patrick's in Chicago where he remained from 1937 until his death in 1942. He was the third member of his immediate family to enter religious life. His younger brother became a priest and another brother, Brother Jarlath De La Salle, joined him as a Christian Brother. He died at age sixty-seven in his forty-second year of his life as a De La Salle Christian Brother.