Submitted by: Dan Rich

Brother Liguori Denier CSC

March 9, 1907 - March 15, 2002

South Bend Tribune 3/19/2002

Brother Liguori (Clarence) Denier CSC, 94, died after a long illness on Friday, March 15, in Dujarie House, Notre Dame, Ind. He was born March 9, 1907, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Michael and Emma (Norman) Denier. He is survived by his brother, Brother Henry Denier, O.P. Br. Liguori attended public and Catholic schools in Cincinnati until he joined the Holy Cross Brothers in Watertown, Wis., in 1928. He received the habit of the brothers in February 1929, pronounced temporary vows a year later, and perpetual vows on Aug. 15, 1935. After completing undergraduate studies at Notre Dame in 1933, he spent the next four years teaching at brothers' schools in Indianapolis, Ind., Watertown and Chicago, before being assigned to the congregation's mission in East Bengal (Bangladesh), where he taught in two of the brothers' schools, St. Gregory's in Dhaka and Holy Cross in Bandura.

Br. Liguori returned to the United States in 1955 for a sabbatical, then was assigned in 1956 to Holy Cross High School in Flushing, N.Y. The same year he taught at St. Edward H.S. in Lakewood, Ohio, remaining there until 1959, when he was transferred to Cathedral H.S. in Indianapolis. In 1960 he went to Archbishop Hoban H.S., Akron, Ohio, teaching there until 1964. He returned to St. Edward in Lakewood for another seven years, then spent six years at Holy Trinity H.S. in Chicago. In 1977 he retired from teaching and for two years did pastoral care at Chicago's Nazareth Hospital. He then retired at Holy Trinity H.S. In 1990 he moved to Columba Hall at Notre Dame, and in 1997 to the brothers' infirmary where he remained until his death. Br. Liguori was a keen student, and a precise and demanding teacher of English, religion and Latin. His years in Bengal were formative ones, forging a generous, self-motivated, disciplined, patient, and determined individual, whose later participation in the Charismatic prayer movement placed him among leaders and creative thinkers in the evolution of post-Vatican II experiential theology and ecclesiology related to the movement.

Visitation will begin at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, in St. Joseph's Chapel, Holy Cross Village at Notre Dame, 54515 State Road 933. A Mass of the Resurrection will follow at 3:30 p.m., with burial immediately afterward at St. Joseph's Cemetery on the village grounds.