St. John Baptist de la Salle is renowned for promoting and reforming Christian education, especially among the poor, and for founding the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, who now teach around the world.
The French priest was one of the first pedagogues to emphasize classroom teaching in the vernacular instead of in Latin. He also founded three teachers colleges and, in 1705, he established a reform school for boys at Dijon.
John was born at Rheims, France, April 30, 1651 and raised in a noble family of 10 children. He studied in Paris and was ordained in 1678. He died at St. Yon, Rouen on Good Friday April 7, 1751. He was canonized by Pope Leo XIII in 1900 and named patron of teachers by Pope Pius XII in 1950.
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