Br. Alcimian Thomas

Patrick Kelly was born on March 19, 1839 at St. Martin, Clare, Ireland, the son of Michael and Mary Crotte Kelly. He emigrated to the United States and at age thirty-one entered the Novitiate of the Brothers at Carondelet where he received the habit and religious name of Brother Alcimian Thomas on September 8, 1870. His first assignment was with the orphans at St. Joseph's in Glencoe; then he served in 1871 at St. Patrick's in St. Louis; at La Salle Institute in Glencoe, Missouri; at Carondelet in 1873; he returned to St. Patrick's in 1875 and was assigned to St. John's in Chicago in 1878. His teaching abilities brought him to St. Malachy in St. Louis in 1879, St. Bridget's in 1881, to St. John's again in 1886 and again to St. Malachy as Director in 1887. He served at CBC, St. Joseph, Missouri in 1889, at St. Pat's in Chicago in 1890, at St. Vincent in St. Louis in 1891 and at Feehanville in 1893, at St. Bridget's in 1897 and St. Lawrence in 1899. In 1900 Brother Alcimian taught at St. Joseph, Missouri and 1902 at CBC in St. Louis. He was assigned to Memphis at CBC as econome in 1906 and in the same job at St. Pat's in Chicago in 1908. He returned to CBC in St. Joe, Missouri, for his last teaching assignment in 1911 and retired to the Community of Ancients in Glencoe in 1913 where he died in 1919 at the age of eighty, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-nine years.