Br. Leonidian

James A. Prindiville was born in Chicago on December 23, 1867. He attended St. Patrick Academy, under the direction of the Brothers and his first year at St. Ignatius College, when at the age of twenty he entered the Novitiate at Glencoe, Missouri. He received the habit in March of 1888 and the religious name of Brother Leonidian. His first teaching assignment was to Cretin High School in St. Paul in 1889. In 1890 he was assigned to St. Bridget's in St. Louis but returned to St. Paul in 1891. In 1892 he taught at St. Malachy in St. Louis and at the school at Glencoe, Missouri. In 1892 he taught at CBC in Memphis and in 1893 at CBC, St. Louis, as well as St. Bridget's in 1894. He was in Chicago at De La Salle Institute from 1895 to 1906 when he was transferred to Kansas City and De La Salle Academy. He returned to De La Salle in 1909 but went to St. Pat's in the same city in 1914. He taught in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1917 but was off to the New York District from 1918 until he returned to De La Salle in Chicago in 1927. He taught at St. George's High School in Evanston for one year, 1932, and then returned to his beloved De La Salle where he died ten years later, after having spent a total of twenty-three years there, at the age of seventy-seven, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-six years.