Br. Julian Constantine

Michael Patrick Hyde was born on August 14, 1926, in Chicago, Illinois, one of two sons and a daughter of Michael J. and Mary Anne O'Donoghue Hyde. He attended De La Salle High School in Chicago and entered the Novitiate at Glencoe, Missouri, at age twenty-one in 1947. There he received the robe and the religious name of Brother Julian Constantine. He attended the Scholasticate at St. Mary's College in Winona and received his B.A. there in 1950. Brother Constantine was assigned to St. Mel High School in Chicago in 1950 and to Central Catholic in Vincennes, Indiana in 1953. He came to Christian Brothers College High School in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1955 and continued his education in St. Paul, Minnesota at St. Catherine College in Library Science. In 1960 he was assigned to St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois and eight years later at De La Salle Institute in Chicago. In 1973 he worked at St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, and in 1980 he moved to La Salle Manor in Plano. He remained there until 1983 when he was assigned to the C.B. Provincialate in Romeoville, Illinois, where he died at age sixty-three, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for forty-two years.