Br. Ildefonsus Paulian

Edmond Melancon was born in April 10, 1852, and graduated from St. Mary's school in New Orleans, and was 27 when he entered the Novitiate in Carondelet in 1882 and received the religious name of Brother Ildefonsus Paulian. He spent most of his life as prefect at Christian Brothers College in St. Louis, and Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tennessee. In the winter of 1923 in Memphis, Brother Paulian slipped on the ice, lost consciousness and was rushed to the hospital. He died later that day after regaining consciousness only for a short time during which he received the last rites of the Church. When he died on February 10, 1923, he was sixty-nine years old and in his forty-second year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.