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Show BISHOP BRONDEL'S TEACHER. , Bait imorc, Nov. . 26. Editor Intermountain Catholic; Tt may be of interest to many of your readers who read the article of Bishop Brondel of Helena, Mont., to know that the teacher from whom the bishop received his earliest training in his native na-tive city of Bruges, Belgium, is still alive, and resides re-sides at present at St. Xaviers' college, Louisville, Louis-ville, Ky. ' The aged gentleman, Brother Stanislaus, ha3 been a member of the Xaverian brotherhood for over sixty years, more than fifty of which he spent in the classroom. He taught first in Bruges, from 1848 to 1856 in England, and was transferred to Louisville, Ky., in 1856, where he has lived ever since. The late Rt. Rev. Bishop Brondel was one of the first pupils of Brothers Stanislaus, to whom he ever after showed the greatest respect, and never failed visiting him whenever he passed through Louisville. The Xaverian Brothers are spreading very rapidly rap-idly in this country and two months ago took charge . of a school in Rutherford, Cal., some forty miles from San Francisco. The brothers will erl,-b,a;f, i their fiftieth mniversary of thoir coming t., :. ' "J country next summer. BRO. ISII'nRp |