“In the infirmary, at 8:00 this Friday morning, a giant left us slowly,” said Bro Mario Houle, Provincial of Jean de la Mennais Province of Canada-USA-Mexico. Bro Albert Tremblay died after a very short period of comfort care following a heart weakness the previous night.
He left peacefully, having had the opportunity to see his sister the day before”.
He was in his 100th year of life. At 99 years ,he was the 7th Successor of Father de La Mennais.
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Born in Saint-Félicien (Roberval, Quebec), on August 17th , 1922, the young Albert Tremblay attended the Dolbeau School, opened in 1930 by the Brothers of Christian Instruction.
In 1935, he entered the Juvénat of Pointe-du-Lac, and in August 1938, still at Pointe-du-Lac, he took the Religious habit and began his Novitiate, under the name of Bro Léonard-Albert.
After a few years of teaching, he was appointed Teacher in 1945 at Pointe-du-Lac Scholasticate.
The Juvénat of Dolbeau was the subject of much attention from Bro Albert.
In 1949, he became Founding Director of the Juvénat of Dolbeau, established in the Main House of the recently founded Saint-Jean District. He made his Second Novitiate in Jersey in 1953-54, and in the autumn of 1954, he entered the Gregorian University in Rome.
Back to Canada in 1961, he took charge of the Scholasticate, first at Pointe-du-Lac, then at Cap-Rouge when the École Normale Notre-Dame de Foy, an Intercommunal Institution, opened.
In 1966, he became Visitor of his District of origin. Shortly afterwards he was elected Vice-President of the Canadian Religious Conference and President of the Federation of the Educator Brothers of Québec.
Elected Superior general of the Congregation in 1970.
On February 27th, 1970, the Chapter elected him Superior General of the Congregation. Upon his discharge from office in 1982, Brother Albert Tremblay became a Missionary in Congo-Zaire where he took care of the Formation of young Brothers and Seminarians as a teacher of Theology.
A progressive blindness forced him to leave this charge, but did not prevent him from investing himself in the Pastoral care of the Diocese of Dolbeau. He then joined La Prairie.
Time of Sharing with the International Information Commission FIC, La Prairie, October 2014.
Message at the 2018 Chapter. Bro Albert Tremblay, Former Superior General:
“Think of School and other Educational places”
Former Superior General from 1970 to 1982, Bro Albert Tremblay, 100 years old the next August, in the Residence at the Mother House of La Prairie, Quebec-Canada, gave his encouragement on the occasion of that Chapter.
“At the time of this new General Chapter, I hope that the Chapter will live an attitude of faith in the future and above all an openness to the concept of the charism not only centered on School. We were born to make Jesus Christ known.
Our presence has been striking in the Schools and still remains so, but let us also look at the developments and not have a narrow interpretation.
Our central core is to make Christ known.
We have sometimes lacked openness, boldness and wisdom by being too often focused on School, and thinking of other Educational places.”
Video of Bro Albert in 2011, in Dolbeau
During an interview in 2011, Bro Albert evoked the Spirituality of the Brother, the importance of his presence, his problems of blindness, the TV shows in which he participated and the heart of his prayer.
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Just Listen to a small play of violin with Bro Albert (2011)
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