Brother Domitian of Jesus (Norbert Dionne) was born in Canada and entered the Novitiate in 1861 in Montreal, Canada. He died on March 12, 1891, at the age of 50 in New York City and is buried in Long Island City in Calvary Cemetery.
Born at Riviere du Loups, Canada on December 18, 1841, Norbert Dionne entered the Montreal Novitiate at age nineteen in 1860. He was the son of Benjamin and Adelaide Francheres Dionne and was a relative of the famous "Dionne Quintuplets". He arrived in St. Louis, Missouri, to teach at Christian Brothers College on August 15, 1860. He also taught at Troy, Westchester, Albany, New York, and Baltimore, Maryland. He was especially effective as a prefect for the orphans at Troy and Westchester. In 1888 he was assigned as procure in New York. It was in New York that he succumbed to pneumonia at the age of fifty and died. He had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty-one years.
Born at Riviere du Loups, Canada on December 18, 1841, Norbert Dionne entered the Montreal Novitiate at age nineteen in 1860. He was the son of Benjamin and Adelaide Francheres Dionne and was a relative of the famous "Dionne Quintuplets". He arrived in St. Louis, Missouri, to teach at Christian Brothers College on August 15, 1860. He also taught at Troy, Westchester, Albany, New York, and Baltimore, Maryland. He was especially effective as a prefect for the orphans at Troy and Westchester. In 1888 he was assigned as procure in New York. It was in New York that he succumbed to pneumonia at the age of fifty and died. He had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty-one years.
Brother Domitian of Jesus (Norbert Dionne) was born in Canada and entered the Novitiate in 1861 in Montreal, Canada. He died on March 12, 1891, at the age of 50 in New York City and is buried in Long Island City in Calvary Cemetery.
Born at Riviere du Loups, Canada on December 18, 1841, Norbert Dionne entered the Montreal Novitiate at age nineteen in 1860. He was the son of Benjamin and Adelaide Francheres Dionne and was a relative of the famous "Dionne Quintuplets". He arrived in St. Louis, Missouri, to teach at Christian Brothers College on August 15, 1860. He also taught at Troy, Westchester, Albany, New York, and Baltimore, Maryland. He was especially effective as a prefect for the orphans at Troy and Westchester. In 1888 he was assigned as procure in New York. It was in New York that he succumbed to pneumonia at the age of fifty and died. He had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty-one years.
Born at Riviere du Loups, Canada on December 18, 1841, Norbert Dionne entered the Montreal Novitiate at age nineteen in 1860. He was the son of Benjamin and Adelaide Francheres Dionne and was a relative of the famous "Dionne Quintuplets". He arrived in St. Louis, Missouri, to teach at Christian Brothers College on August 15, 1860. He also taught at Troy, Westchester, Albany, New York, and Baltimore, Maryland. He was especially effective as a prefect for the orphans at Troy and Westchester. In 1888 he was assigned as procure in New York. It was in New York that he succumbed to pneumonia at the age of fifty and died. He had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty-one years.
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