Br. Lawrence

Brother Lawrence entered the Brothers' Novitiate on Cerre Street, St. Louis and was its very first postulant in 1850.  He was forty-one years old at the time of his entrance and had for a number of years been employed as sacristan to the Archbishop of St. Louis.  He served as "econome" in the Brothers' communities in St. Louis from 1850 to 1860 and again in 1863 to 1865, also in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1860 to 1863, at St. Patrick's Community in Chicago from 1865 to 1871, in Pass Christian, Mississippi in 1871, in Carondelet, Missouri for nine years from 1871 to 1878 and from 1884 to 1886, and at La Salle Institute, Glencoe, Missouri, from 1886 until his death in 1890.  He died at age eighty-one, in his fortieth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.

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