Early Life
Richard Henry Duerr was born in 1922 in Brooklyn, New York; the third of four children. He studied at the Saint James Diocesan High School in Loughlin and Saint Joseph's Normal Institute in Barrytown, New York, graduating valedictorian from both schools. In 1935, at the age of 13, he entered the Junior Novitiate of the Christian Brothers in New York and began his postulancy on June 26, 1936. On September 7, 1936, he received the Holy Habit and was given the religious name Crescentius Richard.
In 1941, he earned his undergraduate degree of Bachelor of Science, major in Chemistry and a minor in Biology, from The Catholic University of America and in 1948, he received his master's degree from Fordham University.
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