Br. Justin Malachy

Edward  McMahon was born on January 20, 1879, in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.  He attended the Brothers' school there and  entered the Juniorate at La Salle Institute in Glencoe, Missouri, on April  20, 1895.  A year later he entered the  Novitiate there and received the habit and religious name of Brother Justin  Malachy.  In 1897 he taught in three  different schools, St. Malachy in St. Louis, Missouri; Christian Brothers  College in Memphis, Tennessee; and Christian Brothers College in St. Louis,  Missouri.  In 1898 he was assigned to  Glencoe and then to St. Michael's School in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  A year later he was transferred to  Bernalillo, New Mexico, but in December of that year returned to St.  Michael's in Santa Fe where he died at the young age of twenty-three, having  been a De La Salle Christian Brother for seven years.