Br. Joannis Michael

Michael O'Loughlin was born on December 15, 1859, in Miltown, Malbay, County Clare, Ireland, the son of Laurence and Ellen McMahon O'Loughlin. He emigrated to the United States with his family and sought entry to the Brothers' Novitiate at Carondelet on December 15, 1880, at age twenty-one. There he received the habit and religious name of Brother Joannis Michael on August 15, 1880. He was assigned later that month to Christian Brothers College in St. Joseph, Missouri where he remained for a year before returning to Carondelet for only a few months before being assigned in November to St. John's in Chicago, Illinois. In 1883 he was sent to Feehanville as a bookkeeper but became ill with tuberculosis and returned to the infirmary at CBC in St. Louis, Missouri. He was sent to Santa Fe in April of 1884 with the hope that the warmer climate would help him recover. It did not and he returned to Glencoe where he died at age twenty five, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for only four years. He was the first Brother buried in the new Calvary Cemetery in Glencoe