La Salle, Jean Baptiste De

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see John Baptist de la Salle, Saint.

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John Baptist De La Salle, Saint - 1651–1719, French educator, founder of the Christian Brothers, b. Reims. He became a priest and canon of the cathedral. He spent his life teaching children of the poor. In 1684 (having resigned ...