CHICAGO, Ill. — Father Paul Lachance, OFM, 73, died Sunday, July 31, from a brain injury sustained in a fall.

He was born in Lewiston in 1938, the son of Adolphe and Antoinette Lachance. He was a 1955 graduate of St. Dominic High School.

Paul was a Franciscan Friar of the St. Joseph Province, a Catholic priest, an author, a scholar of Blessed Angela of Foligno and the Franciscan Mystics and teacher of spiritual theology.

Survivors include his sister, Rita (Jim) Hunt of Massachusetts; nieces; and a nephew.