Brother Patrick of St. Michael. 16.May.1890. Province of St. Joseph On the 16th of May at midnight this good and edifying brother took his flight to a better life. Brother Patrick was Irish by birth and although he is stated in our archives to have been born in 1824 there is sufficient evidence to show that he was born in the very beginning of this century. He entered our Congregation in 1851 and was professed on the 25th of August 1853. His secular name was James Casey and at his death he must have been almost 90 years old. He was a man of singular simplicity and remarkable in his religious life for a special attachment to his duties and a strict observance of our holy Rule. It was his custom to make the Stations of the Cross barefooted at 5 o’clock every morning as he went to the Choir without his sandals that he might not disturb the repose of the other religious. During the last years of his life his decrepid old age caused him much suffering, yet he continued to attend to all the observances in Choir until he was obliged from sheer want of strength to remain in bed. Strengthened by all those helps that our Holy Church provides for her children in their last moments this exemplary and simple brother gave his soul to God and went to meet, we confidently hope, his Father and Founder St. Paul of the Cross. OBITUARY OF BROTHER PATRICK CASEY (WRITTEN BY FR. SALVIAN NAROCCCI, C.P.) – COPIED FROM LIBER DEFUNCTORUM CONGREGATIONIS RELIGIOSORUM, MOUNT ARGUS ARCHIVES. This day, May 16th (1890) about half past 12 A.M. the soul of this poor lay brother took its departure for a better life. He was a native of the parish of Gurteen in the county of Sligo. Although his birth is given in our calendar as 1824, we have circumstantial evidence that he must have been born at the very beginning of the century. He was a man of very simple habits and rather limited abilities. He was remarkable throughout his religious life for a close adherence to his duties and a strict observance of the Rule. He made his Stations of the Cross barefoot at five o’clock in the morning for fear of disturbing the religious every morning, and tottered into the Choir when old age and decrepitude were leaning severely on his health at every act of obedience. He was one of the old stock of Brothers who always kept to his duties. He entered our Congregation in 1851 and was professed on 25th August, 1853. His name in the world was James Casey. He must have been close on 90 years of age at the time of his death. He was never subject to any disease and his death came on through the sheer exhaustion of his natural strength. He received with fervour and humility all the services which the Church provides for the dying and departed in peace. He never made an enemy, and never lost a friend. R.I.P.