Brother Lucian Alphonsus (Raymond Pluth) was born in Joliet, Illinois, and entered the Novitiate in 1933 in Glencoe, Missouri. He died on April 23, 1986, in Winona, Minnesota, at the age of 73 and is buried in Winona in St. Mary Cemetery.
Raymond Jacob Pluth, son of Joseph and Anna B. Govednik Pluth, was born on February 18, 1913, in Joliet, Illinois. Raymond was one of three children, having one sister and one brother. He attended De La Salle High School where he met the Christian Brothers and from where he graduated in 1931. Two years later he entered the Glencoe Novitiate and received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Lucian Alphonsus on August 30, 1933. He was assigned to Scholasticate studies from 1934 to 1940 during which time he studied, taught, and rested shortly at Mount Saint Rose Sanitarium in Saint Louis for six months of rehabilitation in 1936. He had become an accomplished cellist by now and in 1940 he was assigned to teach at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it was during this time that he began and finished his famous Living with Christ series for use in religion classes. In 1953 he obtained a used printing press and spent his time on Saturdays as an apprentice in a commercial printing plant, becoming proficient in the printing craft. He then not only edited but also printed a religion teacher's journal that developed a national following. In 1954, Brother Alphonsus was assigned to St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, from which he had graduated in 1939. On January 9, 1954, the Saint Mary's College farm truck brought the printing equipment from De La Salle to the College to be installed in the old laundry room. Brother Alphonsus worked on the development of Saint Mary's College Press [SMCP] and, for the next dozen years, taught catechetics and choir. By 1957 he managed to write the fourth volume of the religion series. On December 6, 1967, he supervised the move of the press to the new SMCP building on campus. In 1974, after over 30 years of responsibility in directing the Press, Brother Alphonsus resigned and returned to full-time work in editing and writing. In 1985 the Press published Brother Alphonsus's last book which he completed writing at the age of 72: The Catholic Church, Our Mission in History. Saint Mary's Press stands as a monument to Brother Alphonsus and to his dream of how to meet a need. Following that dream led from typing mimeograph stencils in a phone-booth sized office that employed over 30 people and distributed 450,000 religion texts and related books annually. The history of the success of St. Mary's Press is the life story of Brother Alphonsus. He died at Winona Memorial Hospital on April 23, 1986, at the age of seventy-three and in his fifty-sixth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother, author, editor, printer, and publisher.
Raymond Jacob Pluth, son of Joseph and Anna B. Govednik Pluth, was born on February 18, 1913, in Joliet, Illinois. Raymond was one of three children, having one sister and one brother. He attended De La Salle High School where he met the Christian Brothers and from where he graduated in 1931. Two years later he entered the Glencoe Novitiate and received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Lucian Alphonsus on August 30, 1933. He was assigned to Scholasticate studies from 1934 to 1940 during which time he studied, taught, and rested shortly at Mount Saint Rose Sanitarium in Saint Louis for six months of rehabilitation in 1936. He had become an accomplished cellist by now and in 1940 he was assigned to teach at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it was during this time that he began and finished his famous Living with Christ series for use in religion classes. In 1953 he obtained a used printing press and spent his time on Saturdays as an apprentice in a commercial printing plant, becoming proficient in the printing craft. He then not only edited but also printed a religion teacher's journal that developed a national following. In 1954, Brother Alphonsus was assigned to St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, from which he had graduated in 1939. On January 9, 1954, the Saint Mary's College farm truck brought the printing equipment from De La Salle to the College to be installed in the old laundry room. Brother Alphonsus worked on the development of Saint Mary's College Press [SMCP] and, for the next dozen years, taught catechetics and choir. By 1957 he managed to write the fourth volume of the religion series. On December 6, 1967, he supervised the move of the press to the new SMCP building on campus. In 1974, after over 30 years of responsibility in directing the Press, Brother Alphonsus resigned and returned to full-time work in editing and writing. In 1985 the Press published Brother Alphonsus's last book which he completed writing at the age of 72: The Catholic Church, Our Mission in History. Saint Mary's Press stands as a monument to Brother Alphonsus and to his dream of how to meet a need. Following that dream led from typing mimeograph stencils in a phone-booth sized office that employed over 30 people and distributed 450,000 religion texts and related books annually. The history of the success of St. Mary's Press is the life story of Brother Alphonsus. He died at Winona Memorial Hospital on April 23, 1986, at the age of seventy-three and in his fifty-sixth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother, author, editor, printer, and publisher.
Brother Lucian Alphonsus (Raymond Pluth) was born in Joliet, Illinois, and entered the Novitiate in 1933 in Glencoe, Missouri. He died on April 23, 1986, in Winona, Minnesota, at the age of 73 and is buried in Winona in St. Mary Cemetery.
Raymond Jacob Pluth, son of Joseph and Anna B. Govednik Pluth, was born on February 18, 1913, in Joliet, Illinois. Raymond was one of three children, having one sister and one brother. He attended De La Salle High School where he met the Christian Brothers and from where he graduated in 1931. Two years later he entered the Glencoe Novitiate and received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Lucian Alphonsus on August 30, 1933. He was assigned to Scholasticate studies from 1934 to 1940 during which time he studied, taught, and rested shortly at Mount Saint Rose Sanitarium in Saint Louis for six months of rehabilitation in 1936. He had become an accomplished cellist by now and in 1940 he was assigned to teach at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it was during this time that he began and finished his famous Living with Christ series for use in religion classes. In 1953 he obtained a used printing press and spent his time on Saturdays as an apprentice in a commercial printing plant, becoming proficient in the printing craft. He then not only edited but also printed a religion teacher's journal that developed a national following. In 1954, Brother Alphonsus was assigned to St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, from which he had graduated in 1939. On January 9, 1954, the Saint Mary's College farm truck brought the printing equipment from De La Salle to the College to be installed in the old laundry room. Brother Alphonsus worked on the development of Saint Mary's College Press [SMCP] and, for the next dozen years, taught catechetics and choir. By 1957 he managed to write the fourth volume of the religion series. On December 6, 1967, he supervised the move of the press to the new SMCP building on campus. In 1974, after over 30 years of responsibility in directing the Press, Brother Alphonsus resigned and returned to full-time work in editing and writing. In 1985 the Press published Brother Alphonsus's last book which he completed writing at the age of 72: The Catholic Church, Our Mission in History. Saint Mary's Press stands as a monument to Brother Alphonsus and to his dream of how to meet a need. Following that dream led from typing mimeograph stencils in a phone-booth sized office that employed over 30 people and distributed 450,000 religion texts and related books annually. The history of the success of St. Mary's Press is the life story of Brother Alphonsus. He died at Winona Memorial Hospital on April 23, 1986, at the age of seventy-three and in his fifty-sixth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother, author, editor, printer, and publisher.
Raymond Jacob Pluth, son of Joseph and Anna B. Govednik Pluth, was born on February 18, 1913, in Joliet, Illinois. Raymond was one of three children, having one sister and one brother. He attended De La Salle High School where he met the Christian Brothers and from where he graduated in 1931. Two years later he entered the Glencoe Novitiate and received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Lucian Alphonsus on August 30, 1933. He was assigned to Scholasticate studies from 1934 to 1940 during which time he studied, taught, and rested shortly at Mount Saint Rose Sanitarium in Saint Louis for six months of rehabilitation in 1936. He had become an accomplished cellist by now and in 1940 he was assigned to teach at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it was during this time that he began and finished his famous Living with Christ series for use in religion classes. In 1953 he obtained a used printing press and spent his time on Saturdays as an apprentice in a commercial printing plant, becoming proficient in the printing craft. He then not only edited but also printed a religion teacher's journal that developed a national following. In 1954, Brother Alphonsus was assigned to St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, from which he had graduated in 1939. On January 9, 1954, the Saint Mary's College farm truck brought the printing equipment from De La Salle to the College to be installed in the old laundry room. Brother Alphonsus worked on the development of Saint Mary's College Press [SMCP] and, for the next dozen years, taught catechetics and choir. By 1957 he managed to write the fourth volume of the religion series. On December 6, 1967, he supervised the move of the press to the new SMCP building on campus. In 1974, after over 30 years of responsibility in directing the Press, Brother Alphonsus resigned and returned to full-time work in editing and writing. In 1985 the Press published Brother Alphonsus's last book which he completed writing at the age of 72: The Catholic Church, Our Mission in History. Saint Mary's Press stands as a monument to Brother Alphonsus and to his dream of how to meet a need. Following that dream led from typing mimeograph stencils in a phone-booth sized office that employed over 30 people and distributed 450,000 religion texts and related books annually. The history of the success of St. Mary's Press is the life story of Brother Alphonsus. He died at Winona Memorial Hospital on April 23, 1986, at the age of seventy-three and in his fifty-sixth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother, author, editor, printer, and publisher.
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