Br. Jarlath Peter

Daniel Fitzgerald was born in Balleysimon, County Limerick, Munster, Ireland, on November 1, 1875. He emigrated to the United States and entered the Juniorate in Glencoe, Missouri, at age thirteen on November 21, 1888. He progressed to the Novitiate on January 4, 1891, where he received the robe and the religious name of Brother Jarlath Peter. His first assignment took him to Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1892 where he remained until 1899 when he moved for one year to Christian Brothers College in St. Louis, Missouri. He returned to Memphis in 1902 but it was discovered in 1906 that a case of pneumonia had developed into tuberculosis. Brother Jarlath Peter was sent to Santa Fe with the hope that the dry climate would enhance his health. It did not and he returned to the infirmary at Glencoe in November of 1906 and died on Christmas Eve. He was thirty-two years old and had been a De la Salle Christian Brother for nearly sixteen years.
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