Br. Liberius Stanislaus

Wenceslaus  Ruzicka was born on June 20, 1897, in St. Louis, Missouri, where at age  sixteen he sought admission to the Novitiate at La Salle Institute on  November 6, 1913.  There, a month  later, on December 26th he received the habit and the religious name of  Brother Liberius Stanislaus.  In  December of 1914 he was assigned to Pocantico Hills in New York but only  remained a year before being reassigned to Christian Brothers College in St.  Joseph, Missouri.  He fell ill during  an influenza epidemic and died at age twenty-one, having been a De la Salle  Christian Brother for only five years.