- ST.
NORBERT ABBEY
- DE
PERE, WISCONSIN, U.S.A.
- R.D. John L.
Barnard, O. Praem.
- b.
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 1912 – d. Tuesday, May 15, 1984
Our brother John Barnard was born in
Green Bay
in 1912. After graduating from
St.
Norbert High, he joined the Order in 1930 and was solemnly professed in 1935,
and immediately assigned to Southeast Catholic.
After
only a year there, he contracted tuberculosis and spent the next year at Hickory
Grove Sanatorium in DePere for recuperation.
In 1937, he assisted at St. Willibrord in
Chicago
until 1939.
“Claude”,
as he was called, taught at
St.
Norbert High and the college in 1940, and in 1941, was again appointed to
Southeast Catholic, where he was a guidance counselor.
In 1961, he taught at Premontre, in ’63 at Abbot Pennings, ’and in
1964 at Bishop Neumann. Claude was
known for his mild manner, compassion and understanding.
The students loved him as a confessor and were unafraid to reveal their
inmost problems to him.
Claude returned to the abbey in
1966, and in 1973 was a patient at Borneman Nursing home, where he died
on
Tuesday,
May 15, 1984 at the age of 72.
