Bernadeth B.

Tenorio
MA-Filipino
KEY EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF
ST. JOHN BAPTIST DE LA SALLE
 He became
a Canon of
the
Cathedral He entered the
of Reims at seminary of St.
(April 30, 1651 )
the age of Sulpice in Paris and
John Baptist de La Salle was
16. attended the
born in Reims, France to a
lectures in Theology
wealthy family. He was the
at Sorbonne.
eldest of eleven children.

He lived with the first

schoolmasters. They started to He was ordained to the
call each other “Brother”. priesthood. He took his
He made the Heroic Vow with Nicholas doctorate in Theology two
Vuyart and Gabriel Drolin to be faithful years later.
to the mission.

After years of
After a
establishing
theseries
societyofof
Brothers
crises, and
he
the schools, he
went on
breathed his
retreat in At the residence of his spiritual adviser, Nicolas
soul into the
Parmenie He resigned as a Canon and gave away his Roland, he was invited by Adrian Nyel to open a school
hands of his
personal fortune to the poor. for boys. This became a turning point in his life.
Creator.