Brother Abel (Napoleon Chasse) was born in Canada and entered the Novitiate in 1851 in Montreal, Canada. He died on July 14, 1869, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of 32 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Glencoe, Missouri.
Napoleon Chasse was born the son of Zephirin and Sophie Deslauxiers Chasse on December 16, 1836, in Bas-Canada and was trained in his early education by the Brothers. At age fourteen he entered the Montreal Novitiate. His first teaching assignment was in the elementary classes in Montreal but after only a few months he was transferred to Manhattanville in New York. Brother Abel served there until 1860 when he returned to Quebec to teach at the school at Trois-Rivieres. Three years later he was assigned to Christian Brothers College in St. Louis, Missouri, but was in weak health. He taught French, Spanish, drawing and botany there until his health forced him to retire to the infirmary of the Novitiate where he died at age thirty-two, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for nineteen years.
Napoleon Chasse was born the son of Zephirin and Sophie Deslauxiers Chasse on December 16, 1836, in Bas-Canada and was trained in his early education by the Brothers. At age fourteen he entered the Montreal Novitiate. His first teaching assignment was in the elementary classes in Montreal but after only a few months he was transferred to Manhattanville in New York. Brother Abel served there until 1860 when he returned to Quebec to teach at the school at Trois-Rivieres. Three years later he was assigned to Christian Brothers College in St. Louis, Missouri, but was in weak health. He taught French, Spanish, drawing and botany there until his health forced him to retire to the infirmary of the Novitiate where he died at age thirty-two, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for nineteen years.
Brother Abel (Napoleon Chasse) was born in Canada and entered the Novitiate in 1851 in Montreal, Canada. He died on July 14, 1869, in St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of 32 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Glencoe, Missouri.
Napoleon Chasse was born the son of Zephirin and Sophie Deslauxiers Chasse on December 16, 1836, in Bas-Canada and was trained in his early education by the Brothers. At age fourteen he entered the Montreal Novitiate. His first teaching assignment was in the elementary classes in Montreal but after only a few months he was transferred to Manhattanville in New York. Brother Abel served there until 1860 when he returned to Quebec to teach at the school at Trois-Rivieres. Three years later he was assigned to Christian Brothers College in St. Louis, Missouri, but was in weak health. He taught French, Spanish, drawing and botany there until his health forced him to retire to the infirmary of the Novitiate where he died at age thirty-two, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for nineteen years.
Napoleon Chasse was born the son of Zephirin and Sophie Deslauxiers Chasse on December 16, 1836, in Bas-Canada and was trained in his early education by the Brothers. At age fourteen he entered the Montreal Novitiate. His first teaching assignment was in the elementary classes in Montreal but after only a few months he was transferred to Manhattanville in New York. Brother Abel served there until 1860 when he returned to Quebec to teach at the school at Trois-Rivieres. Three years later he was assigned to Christian Brothers College in St. Louis, Missouri, but was in weak health. He taught French, Spanish, drawing and botany there until his health forced him to retire to the infirmary of the Novitiate where he died at age thirty-two, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for nineteen years.
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