Br. Adrian Casimir

Peter Broderick was born in Ballawnia, Galway, Ireland, on October 30, 1891. His cousin was Brother Simeon and so he had contact at an early age with the Christian Brothers. At age sixteen he sought admission to the Novitiate at Castletown, Ireland, and entered on March 19, 1908. In July of that year he received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Adrian Casimir. While in his novitiate and first year of scholastic studies he volunteered to be a "missionary" to the United States and the District of St. Louis. He arrived in Glencoe, Missouri, in October of 1910 and later that same year was permitted to teach an elementary class in the city of St. Louis. In 1913 he was sent to his first formal teaching assignment at De La Salle High School in Chicago, Illinois. Two years later he was transferred to St. Patrick's High School in the same city and it was there on August 19, 1924, that he suffered severe internal pain. He was rushed to St. Anthony's Hospital for an emergency operation. He died two days later at the age of thirty-three, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for only sixteen years.