Br. Levian Benedict

Patrick Hanley was born on May 25, 1869, at Lilmurlaugh, Ireland, the son of Thomas and Ann Kennedy Hanley. He emigrated to the United States and, at age thirty, entered the Novitiate at Glencoe, Missouri, on July 3, 1899, where he received the habit in August and the religious name of Brother Levian Benedict. He became a "working" Brother and served as a cook in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; Feehanville, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; Duluth, Minnesota; and Joliet, Illinois. He died at age fifty-seven, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for twenty years.