1931 – 2014

WOONSOCKET, R.I. — Brother Charles-Leo St-Amand, S.C., 83, of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart Provincial House in Pascoag, R.I., died Tuesday, Nov. 18, at Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket, R.I., after a brief illness.

Born April 13, 1931, in Holyoke, Mass., he was a son of the late Adrien Joseph St-Amand and Lena L. Dauphinais St-Amand. He was baptized Leo Roy St-Amand.

Brother Charles-Leo entered the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in Harrisville, R.I., in 1946. He pronounced his first vows in 1949 and his perpetual vows in 1955; both ceremonies were held at Mount St. Charles Academy. He completed a bachelor’s degree in history at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., in 1952.

Brother Charles-Leo served in assignments as a teacher in New England at Mount St. Charles Academy in Woonsocket, R.I., from 1952 to 1958. Brother Charles-Leo then began 30 years of missionary assignments in Africa, ministering in Lesotho, Zambia, Uganda, Kenya and Zimbabwe.

On various home leaves, he served as a teacher at Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua, N.H., and in Lewiston. He also worked in outreach to the poor in Hartford, Conn., and Woonsocket, R.I. He retired to the Provincial House in 2000.

He is survived by his cousins, Loraine Breault of Chicopee, Mass., and Phyllis Skoczylas of Florida.

Besides his parents, Brother Charles-Leo was predeceased by his brother, Lester St-Amand, and numerous cousins.

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