Br. Aurelian of Jesus

Patrick Sheeran was born in 1837 in Ireland and sought admission to the life of the Brothers at age twenty-three when he entered the Novitiate at Montreal. There he received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Aurelian of Jesus. We know little of his teaching activities until 1869 when he became Director of the school in Troy, New York. Failing health obliged him to relinquish his position. After a rest at Westchester, he returned to the classroom but died of pneumonia at age thirty-seven, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fourteen years.