He was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, on November 20, 1915. He received his elementary education in St. Joseph's parochial school and graduated from St. Mary's High School in his native city. He made his preparatory studies for entering the Order at Providence College and received the habit at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, on August 15, 1935. On August 16, a year later, he made profession and was sent to the Dominican House of Studies, River Forest, Illinois for his philosophical studies. With the erection of the Province of St. Albert the Great on December 2, 1939, he chose to remain in the new Province. Hence, he completed his studies in the Studium at River Forest and was there ordained on July 11, 1942.

In the Fall of 1943 he was assigned to Blessed Sacrament, Madison, Wisconsin, as assistant, and two years later became a professor in Sacred Heart College (Edgewood) in that city. By his warm-heartedness he quickly won the confidence and affection of young and old. Having served with distinction at Edgewood, he was in the Fall of 1950 assigned to St. Dominic's, New Orleans, Louisiana, as assistant in the parish. He also taught in St. Mary's Dominican College and in Mount Carmel Academy. In the Fall of 1955 he was transferred to St. Albert's, Minneapolis, Minnesota, as assistant, where he served with zeal and devotion until March 25, 1960, when he was appointed superior and pastor at St. Joseph's, Ponchatoula, Louisiana.

Having served two terms in Ponchatoula, he was called to St. Pius Priory, Chicago, where he assumed the duties of Director of St. Dominic's Mission Society which had been instituted to promote and support the foreign missions of the Province. His untimely death of cancer on September 11, 1968, was a great loss to the Province. His body was interred in the community cemetery of St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota.