Br. Gabriel of Mary

Frank Antony Fogler was born on September 17, 1848, in the city of New York. On March 12 1865, at the age of seventeen, he sought admission at the Novitiate at Second Street in the city of his birth. Frank received the robe of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Gabriel of Mary on June 23, 1865. He was immediately dispatched to St. Louis, Missouri, where in August of 1865 he was assigned to teach at St. Vincent's. He remained there until 1868 when he was assigned to St. Patrick's Academy in the same city. In 1870 illness caused him to be assigned to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the climate was believed to improve his health. Seven years later he was named Director of Academy of St. Nicholas at Bernalillo where he remained for twenty-two years. Brother Gabriel retired to the Community of Ancients in Glencoe in 1900 due to illness but rested, for the next two years he helped at De La Salle in Chicago in August of 1900, in Memphis in January of 1902, and in Feehanville in April of 1902. He was assigned to Cretin High School in 1903 where he helped in the school office until 1911 when he was transferred to Christian Brothers College in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1913 he retired for a second time to Glencoe where he died two years later from a series of paralytic attacks, at the age of sixty-seven, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty years.