Bro Luke Driscoll fms
Received the Breath of Life
30 Sept 1917 -
Bronx NY
Called to Accept the Marist Brotherhood
26 July 1933 -
Poughkeepsie NY
Professed final vows
26 July 1939 Poughkeepsie NY
Curriculum Vitae
Was Commended to God
9 Sept 1908
Mount St Michael, Bronx NY
Mass of Resurrection
12 Sept 2008
St Francis of Assisi Church
Bronx NY
Interment
13 Sept 2008
Marist Cemetery
Esopus NY
Son of Patrick Driscoll and Elizabeth O'Brien. Brother of the late Bro Edmund Jude Driscoll
'40 and of the late Frank Driscoll (Br. Peter Raphael '36)
1931-1932
1932-1934
1934-1936
1936-1939
1939-1941
1941-1949
1949-1954
1954-1956
1956-1957
1958-
Marist Juniorate, Poughkeepsie NY
Marist Novitiate, Poughkeepsie NY
Marist Scholasticate, Poughkeepsie NY
Saint Ann's Academy, Manhattan NY -
teacher
Novitiate, Poughkeepsie NY -
teacher
Mount Saint Michael, Bronx NY -
teacher
Marist Preparatory, Esopus NY -
teacher
Marist Novitiate, Tyngsboro MA- teacher
Saint Ann's Academy
,
Manhattan NY -
teacher
Archbishop Molloy HS, Queens NY -
teacher
St Joseph HS, Laredo TX -
principal
-1972 Aquinas HS, Augusta GA- principal
1972-1979 Second Novitiate, Fribourg, Switzerland -
director
1980-1981 Marist Novitiate, Orlu, Nigeria -
teacher
1981-1982 Mount Saint Michael
,
Bronx NY -
teacher
1982-1984 Marist Novitiate Calumet Park, Illinois -
co-director
1984-1987 Paul VI Retreat Center, Wheeling WVa -staff
1987-2001 Saint Joseph Hospital, Augusta GA- chaplain
2001-2008 Champagnat Hall community at MSM -
retired
Education





1941 BA degree in education, Fordham University, Bronx NY
1948 MA degree in English, Fordham University, Bronx NY
1955-1956 Second novitiate - St. Quentin Falavier, France
1968 Guidance Certificate, University of Georgia
Fall 1999 Third Age Renewal, Manziana, Italy
From Todays Marist Brother, Advent 2008 edition
On September 9 a gentle man died a gentle death. Br. Luke Driscoll was born to Elizabeth
and Patrick Driscoll in the Bronx on September 30,
1917
and passed away quietly on the evening of
September 9, 2008 at our Champagnat Hall communitY- at Mount St. Michael Academy in the
Bronx. Br. Luke was
91
years old, and lived as a Marist Brother for 75 of those years.
There are Brothers who possess a special charism. It's hard to describe that quality in a
person, but once you've seen it you know it. J. P. Luke ("just plain" Luke-he didn't have the
customary second religious name) was one of those Brothers.
J.
P. Luke was magnetic. He had
"cousins" galore and admirers aplenty. His gentle being and his inclusive, smiling glance made you
feel' like you were part of something; like you were someone special. It's no wonder he was so
popular with his family, students, and fellow Brothers.
As Br. Luke moved through his years as a Marist he served his students as teacher, principal,
and counselor, the Marist Brothers as spiritual director, and his hospital patients as chaplain in New
York, Texas, Massachusetts, Georgia, Illinois, West Virginia, Switzerland, Africa, and Italy before he
retired to the Champagnat Hall Community in his "home town" of the Bronx, New York.
Brother was buried in the Marist Brothers cemetery in Esopus, NY on September
13,
where
he continues to warmly welcome all who come to visit. May he rest in peace.
Latest revision: November 20, 2008