John Baptist de La Salle was a pioneer in founding training colleges for teachers, reform schools for delinquents, technical schools, and secondary schools for modern languages, arts, and sciences. Read more about this extraordinary teacher’s contribution.

The founder of the Brothers is seen now first of all as a gift to the whole Church, one of the foundation blocks. He is also valued as a great pioneer in education. Find out more about his extraordinary history.

John’s genius for getting things done made his work a success, but more important was his vision that, in the eyes of God, working-class children are just as important and have as much right to education as the children of the king. Read more about his life and work.

God never calls us alone and always calls us in function of a mission. We know that Saint John Baptist De la Salle saw his initial involvement with the schoolteachers as an external involvement, incidental to his primary obligations as priest and canon of Rheims Cathedral. Find out more about his vocational journey here.