Br. Joannis Gabriel

Brother Gabriel attended St. Patrick's Academy in Chicago, Illinois, for his high school education and this is where he first met the Christian Brothers. He later was to receive his B.A. degree from Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tennessee, and his M.A. degree from DePaul University in Chicago. He began his teaching career in St. Louis in 1901 at St. Bridget's School and later taught in the same city at Christian Brothers High School. His thirty-nine years of teaching led him to Minnesota where he taught at Duluth Cathedral High School and Cotter High School; Tennessee at Christian Brothers College; Missouri at De La Salle Academy in Kansas City; in Illinois at De La Salle Institute in Chicago; and at Holy Family Community at Glencoe, Missouri, where he spent the last seven years of his life in the infirmary, and where he later died. Although his teaching specialties were history, economics and accounting, he was, in his day, considered to be one of the best baseball players in the history of the Brothers of the Middle West. Brother Joannis Gabriel died at age sixty-nine and in his fifty-sixth year with the De La Salle Christian Brothers.