The Irish standard., 1897-03-06
Career Of the Superior General Of
the Brothers of the Christ
-;
ian Schools.
CALLED SECOND BROTHER PHILIP.
The Irish Province Owes Him q
Tribute of Greatness for
his Services.

WN!lASI N6 uau SOkl0 dl lue UluuluS VI
his physician. Though he had passed
the span allotted man, it was hoped by
his subjects that several years were yet
in store for him. The venerable supe-
rlor rwas a man of eminent piety and
deep eruditfon. Even before his election
as the general of the brothers he had
been minister Of education. Indeed
this was not the only society to which
belonged by the suffrage Of his fellow
citizens It must be said, all the same
that the intercourse which membership
of said societies entaifed never dimmed
the luster Of his religious character.
The salient features In the rule of the
late chief were genera1ship and firm
ness. These traits never forsook him
even under circumstances when their
absence might be easily condoned. TO
him and under his generalship as far as
human agencies were necessary, the be-
atiftcation of the founder, Blessed John
Baptist De La Sale, was pronounced by
the present Sovereign Pontif.
His solicitude for the junior novitiates
was more than Observation-Disclosures. I'M
questionable. He scrutinized the quail
fications of those in direct charge of
such esta Adjustments. No detail was too
trivial to enlist his best attention. His
circulars to the brothers bore that fruit
which is generally a concomitant of
well-thought-out subject. The older
members of the institute designate him
as the second Brother Philip of their
congregation.
In connection with his administration
as general, the Irish province owes him
a tribute Of gratefulness. During his
genera1ship it attained an eminece in
ferior to few in the institute. Although
the disciples of the Blessed De La Sale
had no business in Ireland prior to the
fall of 80, it was this ever fruitful isle
of saints and scholars that supplied the
personnel of the houses in England from
1852. the year in which the Very Rev.
Robert Coffin, G.. SIS. F., afterwards
Bishop Of Southwark, invited the Broth
ers to Clapham-then suburb OF Lon
don. However, If it were under the gen
eralship Of Brother Joseph that the
Irish province 1--WE do not deem 1T just
to say English or even Anglo-Irish) be-
came one of the first in the whole con-
gregation, much and very much is owing
to the fact that Brother Justin, Of the
provincial of New York, man of more
than New World celebrity, was placed at
it's head. To his energy and eminent
ability in great measure are due the
erection and endowment by the English
government Of the magnificent training
or normal college, which now adorns the
city of Waterford. In this college are
trained, under the brothers, the national
teachers of Ireland. A large number of
the brothers. novfces are also formed In
the same institution. To obtain grant
from the English government for
Catholic college was no small considera-
ton, even in this much Wanted age OF
liberalism. This Brother Justin did by
the mere force of his indomitable will
to succeed in whatever he undertakes.
The same indefatigable worker founded
several other establishments In Ireland
true. of minor note, but in their own
way doing equally we'll the work for
which they were founded. In this line
many more points of interest could be
adduced were it not that this Is merely
intended as transient notice Of the ap-
preaching general chapter Of the order
and of the two distinguished brothers
who leave our city in few days as dep
uties from the province Of st. Louis.
When the head of religious order or
congregation dies, or resigns, q general
chapter for a successor soon follows.
To such general assembly every prov
ince is entitled to representation in ac-
cordance with the rules and constitution
of such congregation or order. Owing to
the great number of brothers In the
province of st. Louis, it has the priyi-
lege of being represented by two depu-
ties. 1t may possibly be Of local interest
to remark that the province of St. Louis
is very large extending as it dos, from
Illinois to the confines Of New Mexico
on the one hand and from it's source to
the delta of the Mississippi on the other.
By the suffrages of the schools, pro-
fessed brothers of the territory de-
scribed Brother Paulian, the provincial
of the province apd Brother Felix, the
director at Cote Brilliante, almost now
in the center of the city, are the choice
of the brothers That the brothers NEIL
toned in this notice have the requisite
qualifications must have been the mind
of the brothers who chose them. Ger
tainIy none more competent could be
thought of than Brother Paulian. who
has been provincial of this province for
nearly seventeen years and who has sat
in all the general assemblies Of the order
since '73. His knowledge of men and
things and his mode OF governing have
built up for him place in the hearts of
his subjects which none can ever usurp.
During the seven years which he ruled
the province Of New York as its pro-
vincial he left behind him the stainless
reputation which he enjoys in the big