Thomas McAteer was born in Ireland on December 16, 1816, and entered the Novitiate of Montreal on June 1, 1846, at age thirty after having taught in several schools in Canada. In the Novitiate he received the religious habit of the Brothers and the name in religion of Brother Peter. He was sent to Saint Louis in 1849 at the beginning of the St. Louis District, where Brother Gelisaire was the Director. Brother Peter was teacher of the second class and Brother Dorothy was to take care of the temporalities until he could open a Novitiate. Although we are not certain of the dates, we know he became a missionary to Pulo Pinang, Malaysia, Malabar and Tellecherry. He died on the coast of Malabar at the age of forty-eight, having been a De la Salle Christian Brother for eighteen years.
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