AZARIAS, Brother (PATRICK FRANCIS MULLANY), b. 29 June 1847, near Killenaule, Tipperary, Ireland; d. 20 Aug. 1893, Platts burgh, N. Y. (Cliff Haven). His father emigrated to the United States in 1851, leav ing Patrick, his eldest son, in Ireland a few years on account of his health. At Deerfield, N. Y., near Utica, he attended the public school and later the Christian Brothers' Academy in Utica. At 14 he decided to become a Brother, and on 29 June 1862, Patrick Mullany received the black habit and white collar of a Christian Brother, and henceforth became known to the world as Brother Azarias. At 17 he was put in charge of a large class; and at 19 he was professor of mathematics in Rock Hill College, near Baltimore, Md. Ten years later he was made head of the college. His first book, An Essay Contributing to a Philosophy of Literature' (1874), won him the respect of scholars. His philosophical articles on liter ature, published in various magazines, were well received, and he was soon in demand as a lecturer before educational bodies, Catholic and non-Catholic. When in the 80's he went
to Europe, he found friends everywhere; scholars who had read his books, men like Cardinal Newman greeted him as a friend. He was a promoter of the Catholic Summer School of America and of several other edu cational movements. After finishing his course of lectures at the Catholic Summer School at Cliff Haven, 1893, he was too ill to go home or to any of the other meetings where he was expected. His last days were spent in ((Blue Point Hotel,x' near the Summer School grounds. His published works are (Aristotle and the Christian Church' ;
and Reading' ; (Culture of Spiritual Sense' ;