Mortimer Paul Foley was born November 2, 1912 in Boston, Massachusetts to Edward Foley and Anna Cronin, and was baptized November 19, 1912 at St. Joseph Church, Roxbury, Mass. Mortimer received his early education at Shaw School, Boston, and was a 1930 graduate of Boston English High School. He was received into the novitiate on September 9, 1932, and professed simple vows in the Order on September 11, 1933. He was solemnly professed on September 11, 1936.
James Thomas Deery was an only child, born to James Deery and Marie Gimper on December 5, 1922, in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was baptized in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. After his education at Our Mother of Good Counsel Parochial School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and Bryn Mawr Grammar School, he graduated from Lower Merion High School in 1940. From 1940 to 1943 he studied at Villanova College, and then North Carolina State College and Kentucky University. Prior to applying to the Augustinians he had served in the Army Medical Corps.
Charles Henry Cullinane was born in Andover, Massachusetts, to Jeremiah Cullinane and Mary Sullivan, on January 14, 1866. He entered the novitiate at Villanova, Pennsylvania on August 28, 1885, and made his profession of vows on August 29, 1886. He was solemnly professed on August 31, 1889. Following studies at Villanova, he was ordained to the priesthood in the Philadelphia Cathedral by Archbishop Patrick Ryan on March 15, 1890.
Charles R. Flynn was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, of Charles Flynn and Julia Coghlan on June 13, 1915. He attended Saint Patrick Parish School and then Lincoln Catholic High School, Jersey City. In September 1934, he entered Augustinian Academy, Staten Island, New York, and was received into the novitiate on 9 September 1935. He professed simple vows on September 10, 1936 and three years later, solemn vows.
Joseph John Burns, the son of James Burns and Jennie Meehan, was born in Philadelphia on May 27, 1908. After completing his initial education at St. Coleman Parochial School and West Catholic High School, he entered the Order in 1926, professed his first vows on September 10, 1929, and graduated from Villanova College in 1933. He then studied theology at Augustinian College in Washington, DC, and received his Master’s degree in Education from The Catholic University of America. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 9, 1936, at Washington’s National Shrine by Michael Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore.
William Wallace Donovan, son of Daniel Donovan and Mary Sweeney, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1870, and was baptized there in St. Augustine Church on December 4, 1870. He was received on September 3, 1891 at Villanova, and entered the novitiate there, professing first vows on September 4, 1892 and solemn vows on September 19, 1895. He was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Patrick Ryan in the Philadelphia Cathedral on May 30, 1896.
William Edward Devine, son of Joseph Devine and Margaret Cunningham, was born in Methuen, Massachusetts on September 26, 1918. Following his early education, he entered Augustinian Academy on Staten Island, New York, in 1932, and became a novice at Our Mother of Good Counsel Novitiate, in New Hamburg, N.Y., in 1936. He professed simple vows on September 10, 1937 and solemn vows on September 10, 1941.
James Patrick Anglin, son of John Anglin and Catharine Ahearn, was born in Ballylomasna, County Tipperary, Ireland, on August 6, 1868. He studied at the National School for 11 years and worked for a time as a sexton. He was vested as an oblate at Villanova, Pennsylvania, on December 8, 1904, and received the name Brother Anthony. He served at Saint Laurence’s in Lawrence, Massachusetts, from 1905 to 1908. Ill health necessitated his return to Villanova.
Agostino Cogliani was born in Grottominarda, in the Province of Avellino, Italy, on March 4, 1874. He entered the Order in August, 1887, completed his studies in Rome, and was ordained on May 28, 1899. He arrived in the United States on September 20th of that year, with an assignment to minister in the Italian Mission at Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish in South Philadelphia. His arrival followed by only a few weeks the sudden death of the pastor, Father Guglielmo Repetti.
Joseph Aloysius Coyne was born December 2, 1907 in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, to Thomas P. Coyne and Mary Finnerty. After graduating in 1927 from Augustinian Academy, Staten Island, New York, he was received into the novitiate on September 8, 1927. He professed simple vows on September 9, 1928, and solemn vows on September 9, 1932. He earned a B. A. from Villanova College, Villanova, Pennsylvania, in 1932, and did theological studies at Augustinian College, Washington, D.C., from 1932 to 1936. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 11, 1935.