Br. Pastoris

Jules J. Deville was born on March 4, 1819, in France and at the age of twenty-three sought admission to the religious life at the Novitiate at Caluire-lez-Lyon. There he received the robe and the religious name of Brother Pastoris. He was among the four pioneer Brothers who, in 1849, came to New York to open a school. He spent one year there teaching elementary classes of boys in the attic of a rectory. In 1849, Brother Pastoris became Director of Novices in Canada. He trained many Brothers who became pioneers of De La Salle's work in both Canada and the United States. In 1858 he volunteered for the missions and became Director and Provincial for Mangalore and Tellitchery in India and also Colombo in Ceylon. In 1868 with failing health he returned to France. By 1873 he was recovered and volunteered to come to the United States where he was named Director of Novices in Oakland, California. He died in 1874 as the only pioneer Brother of 1848 who died on American soil. He died at age fifty-five, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty-two years.