Submitted by: Dan Rich
Brother Engelbert Leisse CSC
July 31, 1858 Oct. 29, 1942
South Bend Tribune 10/30/1942
Brother Engelbert CSC, aged 84,
oldest brother in the Congregation of Holy Cross and treasurer of
the University of Notre Dame from 1934 to 1938, died in the
community infirmary at Notre Dame at 6 p.m. Thursday.
He was born in Seidinhausen, Germany, July
31, 1858, as Bernard Leisse. He received the holy habit in 1880
and was professed in 1883. Funeral services will take place
Saturday morning, the office of the dead at 8 oclock and
the reigum mass at 9, both in the Sacred Heart Church on the
campus. Burial will be in the Community Cemetery at Notre Dame.
South Bend Tribune 10-31-1942
Brother Engelbert CSC, dean of the Holy Cross
brothers in the United States, was buried in the Notre Dame
Community Cemetery this morning after services in Sacred Heart
Church at the University of Notre Dame. He was the oldest living
brother in the congregation.
Born in Seldinhausen, Germany in 1858, as
Bernard Leisse, he was for many years a teacher in parochial
grammar and high schools in Covington, Ky., Fort Wayne, Ind., and
New Orleans, La. Among his distinguished pupils was Most Rev.
John F. Noll, D.D., bishop of Fort Wayne.
Superior of the brothers normal school at
Notre Dame from 1898 to 1902, Brother Engelbert served as
president of Holy Cross College, New Orleans, from 1912 to 1919,
and again from 1927 to 1933. He served as purchasing agent at
Notre Dame from 1920 to 1927, and afterwards as treasurer until
his retirement four years ago. He died Thursday at Notre Dame.