Br. Luke of Mary

Nicholas  Lauer was born in Thaley, Prussia, in 1837, and emigrated to the United  States where he entered the Novitiate at the age of fifteen in Baltimore,  Maryland.  There he received the habit  and the religious name of Brother Luke of Mary.  His early tour of duty includes schools in  New York City, Brooklyn, and Troy, New York.   He also taught in Philadelphia and in St. Louis until 1860 and at St.  Mary's School in Detroit, Michigan.  In  1872 he was appointed Sub-Director at La Salle College in Philadelphia as  well as Inspector of Schools in that city.   Brother Luke was assigned to Rock Hill College in Ellicott City,  Maryland, in 1875 and remained there until 1886 when he was appointed  Director of Cathedral High School in Philadelphia.  He returned to Rock Hill College and spent  the rest of his life there until his death at age sixty-three, having been a  De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-nine years.