Br. Jovinian

Richard Meehan was born on May 18, 1835 in Ballooby, Tipperary, Ireland. He emigrated to the United States and at age thirty-five entered the Novitiate at Carondelet, Missouri, on September 27, 1870. In March of 1871 he received the habit and the religious name of Brother Jovinian. His first teaching assignment came a year later at St. Mary's Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana. Thereafter, Brother Jovinian performed the tasks of a "working Brother". He served as econome at Pass Christian in 1871, in 1876 at Prairie du Chien, in 1879 at Glencoe, in 1882 at Carondelet and in 1883 at CBC in St. Louis. He loved gardening and was famous for his beautiful flowers. He was assigned to Glencoe in 1905 and to CBC, St. Louis in 1906 where he died five years later at age seventy-six, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-one years.