Brother A. Joseph Martin SJ died Dec. 4 in Grand Coteau after a long illness. He was 88 years old and a Jesuit for 63 years.
Remembered by his brother Jesuits for his kindness and intelligence, Brother Joseph’s life was celebrated in a Mass of Christian Burial on, Dec. 9 in the Main Chapel of St. Charles College in Grand Coteau. Burial was in the Jesuit Cemetery of St. Charles College immediately following the Funeral Mass.
Brother Joseph was born June 25, 1929, in Maringouin to Alcide Joseph Martin and Delia Blanchard Martin, who preceded him in death. His two sisters, Meredith Templet and Norma Cardinal, also died before him.
Brother A. Joseph Martin SJ
Deacon Eugene Brady died Sunday, Oct. 22. He was 90 years old.
Deacon Brady was ordained July 13, 2002 at St. Joseph Cathedral by Bishop Robert W. Muench. He served as coordinator for nursing home ministry for the Diocese of Baton Rouge until his retirement in July 2013.
Visitation is scheduled Friday, Oct. 27 from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at St. George Church in Baton Rouge. Funeral Mass to follow at St George at 12:30 p.m. Burial will
Father Donald G. Bahlinger SJ, a native of Baton Rouge, died Saturday, Aug. 19 at St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Pavilion in Grand Coteau. He was 88 years old, a Jesuit for 71 years and a priest for 58 years.
Father Bahlinger will be remembered as a man of zeal and compassion, according to family members.
“His gift was to teach us to serve ‘the least of these’ without fear,” said Allyson Mayeux, a
Deacon Albert Robinson Ellis Jr., of Baton Rouge, passed away Aug. 8, 2017, at home surrounded by family. He was 87 years old. Deacon Ellis was a husband, father and grandfather. He was ordained a deacon in 1980 and spent his deaconate career at his home church parish, St. George Church in Baton Rouge. From 1997 to 2003, he was the Director of the Permanent Diaconate. He was the last surviving member of his diaconal class and the oldest deacon in the diocese.
Deacon Peter “Pete” B. Schlette Sr., passed away after a long illness at the age of 78.
Ordained a deacon for the Archdiocese of New Orleans in 1996, he later moved into the Diocese of Baton Rouge and served at Immaculate Conception Church in Denham Springs for 18 years.
Deacon Schlette served with the U.S. Coast Guard for 21 years, retiring as chief petty officer. During his career, he crossed the equator multiple times on
Sister Therese St. Pierre CJS died Feb. 11 at the age of 84 at the Wichita Center of the Adorers of the Precious Blood in Wichita, Kansas.
Sister Therese was born in Lucy, Louisiana to the late Albin J. and Leila Hymel St. Pierre and was educated in public schools in St. John the Baptist Civil Parish.
She graduated from St. Joseph Academy in New Orleans and entered the Sisters of St. Joseph in New Orleans in 1948. She professed first vows
WASHINGTON (CNS) – While many tributes to former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo reference the impact of his 1984 keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, for many Catholics, it was a different speech the same year that defined his political legacy.
Cuomo, who died Jan. 1 at age 82, served three terms as governor and was sought after as a possible candidate for president, though he never took the plunge.
Those two 1984 speeches may well have helped define both why
Laura Gatz Deavers, who served as editor of The Catholic Commentator for 30 years and was known for her commitment to her
Sister Ursula Harelson, Sister of St. Joseph for 71 years, passed away at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas on Dec. 13 at the
Brother Marcel Riviere SC, who had spent the past four years in the Diocese of Baton Rouge, died Oct. 14 at the age of
Sister Mary Hilary Simpson OP, a Dominican Sister of Peace, died Monday, Feb. 15, at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond.
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