Br. Ignatius John

Birth Name
Charles Umbright
Life
1886-1904
Day of remembrance
January
  
25

When Brother Ignatius John was a scholastic in his first year of teaching, it was discovered that he had tuberculosis.  He was given permission to go home in March of 1903.  In hope of recovery, he went to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and where he died on January 25, 1904.  His remains were sent to Glencoe for burial.  He was only eighteen years old and in his third year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.

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