Brother Anselm (Pierre) Caillot
The house in Gennes, France, where Pierre Caillot was born in 1825. His father was a weaver.

St. Michael's Church in Madison, Indiana, Brother Anselm's final teaching assignment.


The baptistry in the Gennes church which dates to hundreds of years before Pierre's birth.




The organ in St. Michael's Church.

The unusual ceiling in St. Michael's Church. It is designed to look like an open book.


 


The basement in St. Michael's Church where Brother Anselm taught and lived in 1845. He had a small room off to the right of this large classroom. Today the basement serves as a local meeting room.


The building that probably served as the rectory in Brother Anselm's day. Father Delaune was pastor at the time.



Brother Anselm drowned in the Ohio River while swimming in July, 1845. Springdale Cemetery in Madison, Indiana, where he is buried.

Bob Newland of Indianapolis, who discovered the actual grave in 2004, seen here dusting off the 1645 stone. The location of the grave had been lost since the 1930's.


The inscription on the Anselm stone. Of the first six Brothers to come from France to Notre Dame, Gatian is the only one who rests in Madison. Further pictures of Brother Anselm's grave are available.


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