Jean P. Cazaneuve was born on March 25, 1814, in the Pyrenees in France and made his Novitiate at Toulouse in 1837 where he received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Irlide. He was Director of the boarding school, St. Joseph, in Toulouse, from 1849 to 1852 he taught in Italy. Brother Irlide was chosen Visitor of Bayonne in 1852 and served in that position until 1873, during which time he founded the boarding school, Saint Bernard, in Bayonne. In 1873 he was chosen to be Assistant to the Superior General, during which time he revised the Exercises of Piety to conform closely to the Roman liturgy. In 1875 he was elected Superior General. He advocated the founding of the Junior Novitiate system and he introduced the Brothers to Spain, Jerusalem, Egypt and Cyprus. He died in 1884 at the age of seventy, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-seven years.
