Brother Anselm (Motteram) C.P. On the morning of Wednesday, March 21st, the community of St. Mary’s Retreat, Carmarthen, was saddened by the death of its revered member, Bro. Anselm – the oldest surviving Brother of our Province, if not, indeed, of our Congregation. Known in the world as Joseph Motteram, Brother Anselm was born in Birmingham on 22nd October, 1843. He was for some few years in business prior to entering our novitiate of St. Saviour’s, Broadway, where he made his profession on April 18th, 1868. At one time or another during his long life in religion, he was attached to most of our houses on both sides of St. George’s Channel. Gathered from these various sources of experience, he had a fund of interesting anecdotes to recall. He could also claim associations with many distinguished Passionists of the past, including Fr. Ignatius Spencer, whom he accompanied on some of his missionary labours for the conversion of England. His associations with our house in Paris revived some interesting details of the hard conditions under which our brethren in Avenue Hoche laboured, immediately following the Siege of Paris and the close of the Franco-Prussian War. Coming to Carmarthen from Harborne, in 1906, his sojourn in St. Mary’s lasted up to the time of his death. Though failing in health for the past year, his demise was occasioned by an accident, as a result of which he sustained a fractured limb. On the advice of the doctor he was removed to the local infirmary. Previous to his removal he received the Last Sacraments with edifying resignation, and again Holy Viaticum on two subsequent occasions. Unable to stand the shock resulting from the fractured limb, he died a few days later in the same institution. After Solemn Requiem Mass on Friday, March 23rd, he was laid to rest in our little cemetery adjoining the church – the first representative of the Passionist Order among its silent occupants. May he rest in peace! (The Cross, Vol. XXV, 1934-35; p. 38)