Br. Gabriel Fitzgerald (1842-1923)

Brother Gabriel, who died at St. Margaret’s Hospital, Kansas City, Kan., November 16, 1923, was born in Ballycureen, Ireland, in 1842.  He had been a member of the community since 1889.  Previous to that he had been in the United States Army.  An article in The Abbey Student says, “Up to the last he preserved military erectness and briskness of bearing uncommon in one of such advanced age.”  He was famous as a bookbinder while a member of the community along with Father Edwin Kassens and Brother Clement Lehan.