Br. Adjutor of Mary

Patrick Goslin was born on November 1, 1848, the son of Thomas and Margaret Kelly Goslin, in Drummon, County Wicklow, Ireland. His parents brought the family to the United States and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. At age twenty-two, Patrick sought admission to the Novitiate at Carondelet, Missouri, where he received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Adjutor of Mary in August of 1871. He spent the next eight years teaching in elementary school in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1879 he was appointed Director of St. Patrick's Commercial Academy in Chicago and in 1892 he became the founder of the De La Salle Institute in Chicago. He became famous in 1899 and the years that followed for his recruiting (twenty-six) postulants from Ireland for work in the St. Louis District. In 1902 he organized the Saint De La Salle Auxiliary but spent the remainder of his life fighting diabetes. He died at age sixty-four, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-one years.