He was an auxiliary bishop here in St. Louis under Archbishop Rigali for a few years before he went to Louisiana.
My husband and I went to Mass at the Cathedral in St. Louis one weekend (quite a few years ago) and he was the celebrant. The homily centered around his close relationship with the late Cardinal Bernardin, and how the Cardinal had passed his legacy on to Braxton. As a sign of that legacy, the Cardinal gave Braxton his ring, shortly before he died.
Bishop Braxton kept a pretty low profile in St. Louis and then was shipped off to Louisiana where he seems to have been keeping that tradition. But now in Belleville he's stirring things up. Curioser and curioser.
Rigali and Bernardin are (were) both of the same stripe..politics first, seamless garment, yada, yada...