Br. Junien Victor

Auguste Detharre was born on August 19, 1864 at Bayonne, France, and entered the Novitiate at Talence in 1882, where he received the religious name of Brother Junien Victor. In 1904 he was sent to Spain where he supervised the reorganiza­tion and reopening of schools. In 1923 he was appointed Assistant in charge of the Far East and on June 17, 1934, he was elected the eighteenth Superior General. During his tenure the motherhouse was moved from Lambecq-lez-hal, Belgium to Rome and the relics of St. De La Salle were brought to Rome. During World War II, while the Italian government used the Mother House for a hospital, Brother Junien Victor and seven Assistants set up temporary headquar­ters in Mauleon Soule, France, where he died at age seventy-six, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-eight years.