Br. Hugh Victor

Thomas Mack was born the son of Thomas McAuliffe and Johanna Callahan Mack on December 19, 1846, in Kantuck, Ireland. The family emigrated to the United States and settled in Louisiana. By the time he entered the Novitiate on November 16, 1865, in New Orleans under the name of Thomas Mack; he was also known as Thomas Callahan, Thomas O'Callaghan and Thomas McAuliffe. He received the religious name of Brother Hugh Victor and after his novitiate training taught at St. Patrick's School in New Orleans for a year before be assigned to St. Vincent's School in Jefferson City, New Orleans. He was assigned at Christian Brothers College in Pass Christian, Mississippi, from 1868 to 1870 when he was assigned to CBC in St. Louis. In 1875 he left the order to take care of his widowed mother but was readmitted at Carondelet in 1879. His continuing tour of duty included assignments in Dubuque, Iowa; St. Paul, Minnesota; St. Joseph, Missouri; Kansas City, Missouri, and Glencoe, Missouri. He withdrew again from the order in 1881 but returned to be assigned to St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1889. From there he served at Feehanville, Illinois; New Orleans, Louisiana; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and St. Louis, Missouri. He died at age sixty, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother three times for a total of forty-eight years.