Brother Patrick Fallon, C.P., St. Paul of the Cross Province (1894-1976)

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Born January 3, 1894 in Kilnadeena County, Galway, Ireland, he was the son of John and Honora Cunningham Fallon. When he was in his early thirties he came to the United States and sought entry to the Passionist novitiate in 1926 as a brother candidate. He professed his vows on February 28, 1928. He had various responsibilities in various monasteries throughout the province. He was a porter, laundryman, boilerman, dishwasher, refectorian, and infirmarian until 1965 when blindness and arthritis afflicted him. He was transferred from Holy Family Monastery, West Hartford, Connecticut to St, Gabriel’s Infirmary, Brighton, Massachusetts in 1969. He died at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Brighton after a lingering illness.