Br. Felician Peter

Frederick Faha was born on July 20, 1859, in Rodt, in the Rhine Province of Prussia. His family emigrated to the United States and he entered the Novitiate at Carondelet on January 16, 1875. In February he received the habit and the religious name of Brother Felician Peter. By March of 1876, he had completed his novitiate and was assigned to teach at St. Patrick's School in St. Louis, Missouri. He was transferred across the city to Christian Brothers College in 1878 where he also taught at St. Vincent School. Brother Felician Peter was a talented artist and produced a beautiful set of the Stations of the Cross for the College chapel. In August, during a visit to Glencoe, Brother Felician and two other Brothers walked by the Meramac River where Brother Felician wanted to sit and sketch. He decided to go for a swim and drowned. His body was recovered after a long search. He was thirty-five years old and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for nineteen years.