Br. Hilarion Mark

Benton Lee Gault was born on May 28, 1918 in Gentry County, Missouri, the fifth child and second son of Minnie Katherine Eiberger and Benton Floyd Gault. He had one older brother, William, and three older sisters; Rosalie, Margaret and Mary Frances. He attended Cathedral grade school and Christian Brothers High School in St. Joseph until June of 1933 when he entered the Juniorate at Glencoe. In 1937 he made his Novitiate there and upon completion took his undergraduate degree studies at Glencoe and at St. Mary’s College in Winona. In 1940 he completed his A.B. in History and English and was assigned to De La Salle High School in Chicago for his first year of teaching. A year later, in 1941 he was assigned to Price College in Amarillo, Texas, where he remained for nine years until he was assigned to St. Patrick High School in Chicago in 1950. Three years later he returned to Price College as Principal and Director. In 1959 he was assigned as Assistant Principal and Director of De La Salle High School in Minneapolis and remained there for six years before being sent to Roncalli High School in Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1965. A year later he was named Co-Principal and Director of the Community at Holy Name High School in Escanaba, Michigan. After four years there he returned to Roncalli in Manitowoc for a semester before making the Sangre experience in New Mexico. In 1971 Mark was assigned as Director of Brady High School in W. St. Paul but only remained there for one year before becoming Director of the Provinicalate Community in St. Paul. After seven years of service in this position he was granted a sabbatical in Denver, Colorado. Upon return he was assigned in 1980 to De La Salle High School in Minneapolis but a year later returned to Sangre de Cristo Center to serve on the staff for the next six years. In 1987 he took up residence in the Cretin-Hamline Community and work on the formation team. In 1988 he was named Director of the Cretin community and remained there until 1991 when he volunteered to go to Dunrovin Retreat. After five years there he lived at the C.B. Residence in St. Paul until 2007 when he moved to Highland Chateau in St. Paul for medical care. He died on August 10th, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for seventy-two years.