Br. Luke

Matthias  Becker was born on June 10, 1822 in Oyle, Prussia.  He was a tailor by trade and at age  thirty-three he entered the Novitiate at Montreal, Canada, on August 14,  1855.  There he received the habit and  religious name of Brother Luke on September 29, 1855.  His first teaching assignment took him to  Detroit and later to New York.  While  assigned to the orphanage in Albany he taught the young men there the trade  and they made habits for the Brothers.   In 1866 he was assigned to St. Vincent's School in St. Louis,  Missouri, and in 1869 he was appointed Sub-Director of Novices at  Carondelet.  Two years later he was  appointed Director of the Novitiate.   Brother Luke served as prefect at Christian Brothers College from 1874  to 1876 when he returned to Carondelet as Sub-Director once again.  He spent 1878 in Glencoe, applying his  tailoring skills and from 1879 to 1884 at the Novitiate in the same  work.  He returned to St. Vincent's in  1884 and became procure in Glencoe in 1887.   He died at the age of sixty-eight, having been a De La Salle Christian  Brother for thirty-five years.