Br. Piperion

Francois Guillaume Audibert was born in France in 1807 and made his novitiate in 1821, at the age of fourteen, in Paris where he received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Piperion. He served in France for twenty-eight years before he was sent to Canada in 1849 and two years later was made Director of the school in St. Louis. He was sent by Brother Facile to visit the schools on the Gulf Coast where he visited New Orleans and Bay St. Louis. While boarding the boat in New Orleans for St. Louis he was stricken with the yellow fever and he died there in 1853. He was buried in a vault there until sometime later when the vault was being cleared, his skull was sent to Memphis and later to the Brothers' cemetery in Glencoe. He was forty-six years of age at the time of his death and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty-two years.