Brother Alpian (John Granahan) was born in Ireland and entered the Novitiate in 1874 in Westchester, New York. He died on April 3, 1911, in New York City at the age of 65 and is buried in New York City, Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
John Granahan was born in Letterbrick, Connaught, Ireland, in 1846. He emigrated to the United States and at age twenty-seven, in 1874 he entered the New York Novitiate where he received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Alpian. Upon the conclusion of his Novitiate, he was assigned to the Catholic Protectory of New York where he began his teaching career. He next transferred to Brooklyn and soon thereafter to New York City where he taught successively in the schools of St. Therese, Saint James, Cathedral, and Manhattan Academy. In 1890 he was sent to the District of Toronto where he was named Director the community at Kingston. For health reasons he was sent south to St. Louis in 1893 where he was appointed Director of St. Malachy School. In 1897 he returned to the District of New York where he spent the remainder of his life teaching at Fall River and New York City, in the schools of St. Joseph, De La Salle Institute, Cathedral and the Holy Innocents. Following bouts with diabetes and pneumonia Brother Alpian died at De La Salle Institute in New York at age sixty-five having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty-eight years.
John Granahan was born in Letterbrick, Connaught, Ireland, in 1846. He emigrated to the United States and at age twenty-seven, in 1874 he entered the New York Novitiate where he received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Alpian. Upon the conclusion of his Novitiate, he was assigned to the Catholic Protectory of New York where he began his teaching career. He next transferred to Brooklyn and soon thereafter to New York City where he taught successively in the schools of St. Therese, Saint James, Cathedral, and Manhattan Academy. In 1890 he was sent to the District of Toronto where he was named Director the community at Kingston. For health reasons he was sent south to St. Louis in 1893 where he was appointed Director of St. Malachy School. In 1897 he returned to the District of New York where he spent the remainder of his life teaching at Fall River and New York City, in the schools of St. Joseph, De La Salle Institute, Cathedral and the Holy Innocents. Following bouts with diabetes and pneumonia Brother Alpian died at De La Salle Institute in New York at age sixty-five having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty-eight years.
Brother Alpian (John Granahan) was born in Ireland and entered the Novitiate in 1874 in Westchester, New York. He died on April 3, 1911, in New York City at the age of 65 and is buried in New York City, Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
John Granahan was born in Letterbrick, Connaught, Ireland, in 1846. He emigrated to the United States and at age twenty-seven, in 1874 he entered the New York Novitiate where he received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Alpian. Upon the conclusion of his Novitiate, he was assigned to the Catholic Protectory of New York where he began his teaching career. He next transferred to Brooklyn and soon thereafter to New York City where he taught successively in the schools of St. Therese, Saint James, Cathedral, and Manhattan Academy. In 1890 he was sent to the District of Toronto where he was named Director the community at Kingston. For health reasons he was sent south to St. Louis in 1893 where he was appointed Director of St. Malachy School. In 1897 he returned to the District of New York where he spent the remainder of his life teaching at Fall River and New York City, in the schools of St. Joseph, De La Salle Institute, Cathedral and the Holy Innocents. Following bouts with diabetes and pneumonia Brother Alpian died at De La Salle Institute in New York at age sixty-five having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty-eight years.
John Granahan was born in Letterbrick, Connaught, Ireland, in 1846. He emigrated to the United States and at age twenty-seven, in 1874 he entered the New York Novitiate where he received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Alpian. Upon the conclusion of his Novitiate, he was assigned to the Catholic Protectory of New York where he began his teaching career. He next transferred to Brooklyn and soon thereafter to New York City where he taught successively in the schools of St. Therese, Saint James, Cathedral, and Manhattan Academy. In 1890 he was sent to the District of Toronto where he was named Director the community at Kingston. For health reasons he was sent south to St. Louis in 1893 where he was appointed Director of St. Malachy School. In 1897 he returned to the District of New York where he spent the remainder of his life teaching at Fall River and New York City, in the schools of St. Joseph, De La Salle Institute, Cathedral and the Holy Innocents. Following bouts with diabetes and pneumonia Brother Alpian died at De La Salle Institute in New York at age sixty-five having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty-eight years.
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