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John Baptist de La Salle, Saint
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Confessor, founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, father of modern pedagogy, born Rheims, France, 1651; died Rouen, France, 1719. After completing his education, he decided to serve the Church, was installed as a canon of the metropolitan See of Rheims, 1667, ordained priest, 1678, and in 1680 took his doctorate in theology. He was occupied with the direction of the Sisters of the Holy Infant, an order devoted to the instruction of poor girls, and began in 1681 the organization of Brothers, and guided it through the vicissitudes which naturally befall a newly-founded society. The first novitiate was founded, 1691, at Vaugirard; in 1705 it was moved to Saint-Yon, Rouen; there he revised the rule he had drawn up in 1695. Canonized, 1900. Feast, Roman Calendar, May 15,.
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Entry for 'John Baptist de La Salle, Saint'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/j/john-baptist-de-la-salle-saint.html. 1910.
