Br. Hubert Maurelian

Casper Herbes was born on April 1, 1915, in Chicago, Illinois. He first met the Christian Brothers when he attended St. George High School and it was from there that he entered the Juniorate on November 1, 1930. Casper completed high school in the Juniorate in 1933 and immediately entered his Postulancy on June 15, 1933. He received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Hubert Maurelian on August 30, 1933. On August 31, 1934, one year and a day after beginning his Novitiate, he began his Scholasticate studies in Glencoe. After his second year of Scholasticate studies, Brother H. Maurelian and several of his classmates were obliged to enter Mount Saint Rose Sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. In 1937 he was assigned to teach in the Juniorate and in 1938 at Christian Brothers College High School in St. Louis. He returned to the Juniorate in 1941 but was assigned to St. Mel High School in 1942 where he remained for two years before being assigned to De La Salle Academy in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1944. Brother Hubert Maurelian had completed his AB degree at St. Louis University in 1940 and his MA from there in 1951. He was rapidly becoming a legendary "raconteur" in the District and he employed these skills often in class. Brother H. Maurelian was assigned to teach at St. Patrick's High School in Chicago in 1954 and was made Sub-Director there the following year. In 1957 he was assigned to Price College in Amarillo and again, the following year, he was named Sub Director there as well. In 1959 he was assigned to Christian Brothers College in St. Louis. In 1945 Brother H. Maurelian was diagnosed with incurable leukemia and told he had only six months to live. Following his doctor's prescription, he took an eyedropper of arsenic in his milk each morning, an early form of chemotherapy. Seventeen years later, in August of 1953, he died at age forty-seven, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty-two years.