US identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart last week. The Buffalo-born brothers were also brothers in the Catholic Order of Friars Minor.

Professed friars for 65 years, they spent much of that time working together at St Bonaventure University, doing carpentry work, gardening and driving visitors to and from the airport and around town.

"It was fun to see them, just quiet, gentle souls," Yvonne Peace, who worked at the St Bonaventure Friary for nearly 21 years, said.

They died on Wednesday at St Anthony Hospital in St Petersburg, Florida, Brother Julian in the morning and Brother Adrian in the evening.

Both died of heart failure, said Father James Toal, guardian of St Anthony Friary in St Petersburg, where the inseparable twins lived since moving from western New York in 2008.