Br. Robert of Mary

Louis  Pace was born on December 2, 1907, in Egypt.   He received his elementary education from the Irish Christian Brothers  in Perth, Western Australia and then moved to Malta where he attended Stella  Maris, a Christian Brothers School.  He  entered the Novitiate in 1926 and received the habit and religious name of  Brother Robert of Mary in February of 1927.   He taught in Rome and Naples, transferred to Jerusalem and Lebanon,  came to La Salle College in Philadelphia, lived at Lockport, Illinois, and  taught at De La Salle College in Washington, D.C. and St. Mary's College of  California.  He ended his days at Mont  La Salle in Napa.  He could teach in  several languages, and his sociable temperament made him an ideal public  relations man.  He is memorialized in  several books for his service in Rome during World War II as a Vatican radio  announcer and secret helper to downed airmen hiding in Rome and surrounding  areas.  He served as District Secretary  in the San Francisco District and was editor of the well known Lasallian  Digest.  He died of a stroke at age  sixty-three, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-four  years.