Submitted by: Dan Rich

Brother Norbert Bauer CSC

Oct. 7, 1871 – July 6, 1958

South Bend Tribune 7/7/1958

Brother Norbert Bauer CSC, 86, oldest member of the Midwest Brothers Province of the Holy Cross, died at 5:35 a.m. Sunday in St. Joseph Hospital, South Bend. Entering the order at 13, he spent more than 73 years in the Holy Cross Congregation. He had the rare distinction of witnessing beautification rites of his own brother, Blessed Andrew Joseph Bauer OFM, a Franciscan lay Brother and one of the 29 martyrs killed July 9, 1900 during the Boxer rebellion in China. At the beatification rites in 1946, Brother Norbert presented Pope Pius XII with a specially bound biography of the martyrs.

He was born in Paris, France Oct. 7, 1871, and entered the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1884 at Angers. He took his final vows in 1891, after which he served for three years in the French Army. He entered the United States in 1901, became a naturalized citizen, and subsequently taught in Holy Cross schools in New Orleans and Portland, Ore. From 1921 to 1947 he lived in Rome, working at the Congregation’s Procure, where liaison between the Vatican and Holy Cross affairs was maintained. He retired in 1947 and since that time had lived at Notre Dame.

Friends may call in Columba Hall, the Brothers residence on the Notre Dame campus. The Office of the Dead will be chanted at 5 p.m. today. A solemn requiem mass will be offered at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, and burial will be in the community cemetery at Notre Dame.