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Brother Luke Driscoll, F.M.S.

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Brother Luke Driscoll, F.M.S., a high school principal and teacher who served at Mount St. Michael Academy in the Bronx, died there Sept. 9 at Champagnat Hall, the Marist Brothers’ retirement community. He was 90.

He taught at Mount St. Michael, 1981-1982 and 1941-1949; Marist Prep in Esopus, 1949-1954; St. Ann’s Novitiate in Poughkeepsie, 1939-1941; and St. Ann’s Academy, Manhattan, 1936-1939.

He also taught in Brooklyn, in Massachusetts and at the Marist novitiate in Orlu, Nigeria, and was a principal in Georgia and Texas. He directed a Marist sabbatical program in Fribourg, Switzerland, 1972-1979.

He was co-director of the Marist novitiate in Calumet, Ill., 1982-1984; a staff member at a retreat center in Wheeling, W.Va., 1984-1987; and a hospital chaplain in Augusta, Ga., and spiritual coordinator of the permanent diaconate program of the Diocese of Savannah, 1987-2001.

Born in the Bronx, he entered the Marist novitiate in 1932 and professed final vows in 1939. He held a bachelor’s degree in education and a master’s in English from Fordham University.

He had lived at Champagnat Hall since retiring in 2001.

A Funeral Mass was celebrated Sept. 12 at St. Francis of Assisi Church, Baychester Avenue, the Bronx, with burial the next day at the Marists Brothers Cemetery in Esopus.

Brother Luke Driscoll, F.M.S.