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.