Br. Ildefonsus Paulian

Brother Ildefonsus Paulian was born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 27, 1914, and grew up in St. Sylvester's Parish. After one year of high school at St. Patrick's Academy on Desplaines Street he entered the Juniorate at Glencoe, Missouri, in April of 1929 and received the habit of the Brothers on August 30, 1932. He graduated from St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, in 1936 and was assigned immediately to teach in Minneapolis. In 1940 he served briefly at Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska, but moved to Memphis in February of 1940 to complete the year. He was assigned to St. Mel High School in October of 1940, to St. Paul in August of 1942, to Memphis in August of 1945 and to his last assignment at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis in 1947. Following a student volleyball game he was seized by a sudden heart attack and died within a few minutes on February 4, 1951. His cousin, Father Charles Heaney, celebrated the Mass at St. Mary's Basilica in St. Paul with a second funeral Mass at St. Sylvester's in Chicago. His body was taken to La Salle Institute, Calvary Cemetery at Glencoe, Missouri, for burial. He died at the early age of thirty-seven and in his nineteenth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.