Br. Albertus Magnus

Henry White was born on December 18, 1843, at Wexford, Ireland. His family emigrated to the United States where at age thirty, Henry entered the Novitiate at Carondelet in October of 1873, receiving the robe and name of Brother Albertus Magnus. His first teaching assignment came a year later at Annunciation School in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1875 he was assigned to Chicago, Illinois where he taught at St. Patrick's School, 1875; St. Bridget's School, 1876; and St. John's School 1877-79. He was assigned to Cathedral High School in Dubuque as econome for the next five years but returned to St. Patrick's in Chicago in 1884 and to St. Bridget's in St. Louis in 1885. He worked with the orphans at Feehanville in 1886 and 1889 and returned to Chicago in 1888-1890. The remainder of his life he devoted himself to the temporal concerns of the communities where he served due to his frail health: St. Mary's in New Orleans, Louisiana; Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tennessee; De La Salle High School in Chicago, Illinois; and La Salle Institute in Glencoe, Missouri, where he died at age fifty-nine, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for twenty-nine years.