Chronology of Lasalle

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John Baptist De La

Salle

His

age DateWorld Events

1648-53 rebellions against the

Crown; many troops aregarrisoned in Reims,

northern France King Charles I is

executed in London(1649)

1John is born in Rheims. Until he is

13, the family home is the Hotel de laCloche (now the Hotel De La Salle.)

30 April 1651

1 1652 Death of French artist, Georgesde la Tour (1593-1652)

2 1653 The Taj Mahal is completed inAgra, India

3 1654 In Rheims cathedral, Louis XIV(aged 15) is crowned King.

6 1657 Huygens, a Dutchphysicist, invents thependulum clock inEngland.

Death of William Harvey

who discovered thecirculation of blood.

7 1658 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, dies, havinggoverned the country as arepublic

8 1659 Plague takes hold in theChampagne region, (of whichRheims is the capital)

9 1660 Charles II is restored to

the thrones of Englandand Scotland

Death of St. Vincent de

Paul (1581-1660) and ofSt Louise de Marillac(1591-1660)

11 1662 Bernini, sculptor and

architect, starts to createthe oval piazza and

colonnades in front of St.Peters, Rome

Death of Blaise Pascal

(1623-1662),philosopher,mathematician, physicist

The De La Salle family move toanother house in Rheims (Rue St.Marguerite).

13 1664 Birth of St Paul of the Cross(1694-1775) founder of thePassionists.


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14 1665 Death of the French

artist, Nicolas Poussin(1594-1665)

New Amsterdam is re-

naemd New York after itscapture by the British

Great Plague in London(70,000 deaths)

2John is named a Canon of Rheims

Cathedral

15 16666 Great fire of London

16 1667 John Milton writes Paradise Lost

17 1668 Plague appears in Rheims again.

18 1669 Death of the artist, Rembrandt(1606-1669) in Amsterdam

345October Enters the

Seminary of St. Sulpice,Paris, and studies at theSorbonne University(following courses on theIncarnation, Sacraments, theTrinity)

December Fr. Nicolas

Roland (Johns friend,spiritual advisor and fellowcanon) founds the Sisters ofthe Child Jesus in Rheims(copying a similar communityfounded by Fr. Barre inRouen).

19 1670

Johns parents die in their 40s. Heleaves the seminary and returnshome, becoming the legal guardiansof his six brothers and sisters.

20-21 1671-72

6John resumes his studies this time

in Rheims.

22 1673

24 1675 Christopher Wren begins

building the new St.Pauls Cathedral,London (completed in1710)

The Greenwich

AstronomicalObservatory opens

79 April John is ordained

priest on Holy Saturday, inRheims

27 April Nicolas Roland

dies, John assumesresponsibilities for the Sisterof the Child Jesus

26 1678 Ppish Plot in England: Titus

Oates falsely alleges a Catholicplot to murder King Charles II

89

Early March John meets

Adrien Nyel at the door of theConvent of the Sisters of the

27 1679


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Child Jesus. It is from thischance encounter that Johnbecomes involved withteachers and schools. Aschool for poor boys isopened a month later in

Rheims. December John rents a

house near his own for AdrienNyels teachers

The teachers often pray and eat theirmeals in Johns house. He begins tolead them.

29 1680

Most of the first teachers have left;the remainder move to live in Johnshouse.

30 24 June 1681

101124 June John and the teachers

move together into a newly rented

house (Rue Nueve/ Rue de Contrai).They begin to call themselvesBrothers.

31 1682 Louis XIV moves the

Court and Government

from Paris to the newly-built Palace of Versailles

Louisiana is named in

his honor

Edmund Halley observes

the comet which will benamed after him, and hepredicts the dates offuture appearances

12John is allowed to resign from being

a Canon of the cathedral of Rheims.

32 1683

13Gives away most of his personal

fortune in times of raging famine.

32-33 Winters of 1683-84 and

1684-851415

First General Assembly.The name

Brothers of the Christian Schools isagreed upon, and a religious habit isadopted. John and 12 brothersexpress their commitment by a Vow ofObedience for one year.

33 Sept 1684

34 1685 200,000 Huguenots go

into exile after Louis XIVrevokes the Edict ofNantes, ending religiousfreedom for Protestantsand igniting the revolt ofthe Camisards insouthern France.

Birth of JS Bach and GF

Handel, musicians

Appreciating wider needs, John startsto train teachers who are notBrothers. They are to beschoolmasters in country areas.

35 About 1686

36 1687 Isaac Newtons major work,


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Principia (on gravity and the lawsof motion) is first published

1624 Feb John and two Brothers

arrive in Paris to take over a school(Rue Princesse). This is an importantmove; the mission extends beyond

the confines of a single diocese.

36 1688 Death of John Bunyan

(1628-1688), writer

James II flees to France.

Englands Glorious

Revolution procures aparliamentarydemocracy with aconstitutional ( andProtestant) monarchy.William of Orange andmary (James daughter)are crowned joint rulersthe following year.

Legal battles start with those who seethe gratuitous schools as a threat ;such serious troubles continue for thenext 30 years.

39 1690 James II is defeated by

William II (of Orange) atthe Battle of the Boyne,Ireland

Death of St. MargaretMary Alacoque (1647-1690)

17

January John is seriously

ill. Before treatment he isgiven the Sacrament of theSick and Viaticum. Is bed-ridden for 6 weeks.

21 November in private,

John, Nicolas Vuyart andGabriel Drolin profess theHeroic Vow,a lifelongcommitment of association

and union to establish theSociety of the ChristianSchools, even if they shouldhave to beg and live on breadalone.

40 1691

18

John and 12 Brothers make

lifelong vows together (6June)

Agreement that no priest be

the Superior in the future.

43 1694 Voltaire, French writer andphilosopher, is born (1694-1778)

45 1696 St. Alphonsus Liguori is born(1696-1787)

19

After 10 years in France, the formerKing James II visits John and theschool in Paris where the Brothersare teaching 50 children of theIrishmen who accompanied the kinginto exile.

47 1698 A monk, Dom Perignon, is thefirst to produce a fizzy version ofthe wine of the Champagneregion.

50 1701 The invention of a mechanizedseed drill by Jethro Tull ofBerkshire, revolutionizesagriculture.


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20John sends two Brothers (Gabriel

and Gerard Drolin) to Rome, there tostart a school and, hopefully, topromote papal recognition of theInstitute.

51 1702 Coronations in London of QueenAnne.

52 1703 John Wesley, founder of

the Methodist Church isborn (1703-1778)

Death of Samuel Pepys,

diarist (1633-1703)

Peter the Great, Tsar of

Russia, founds St.Petersburg

53 1704 Death of English

philosopher, John Locke(1632-1704)

The war-weary French

are defeated by

Churchill, Duke ofMarlborough, atBlenheim (and otherbattles). Queen Annebuilds him BlenheimPalace at Woodstock,Oxford.

A center of delinquent and problemboys is opened, adjacent to theboarding school at St. Yon, Rouen.

55 1706

56 1707 Act of Union unites England,Wales and Scotland as GreatBritain.

58-59 1709-10 Another great famine4. This laststwo years, and a fifth of Francespopulation die.

61 1712 Writer and philosopher, JeanJacques Rousseau, is born(1712-1778)

21At the height of attacks and

difficulties facing the Brothers, Johnthinks his absence may be of help.Troubled, he spends a few weeks atParmenie, a mountain retreat in thesouth of France, praying anddiscerning what may be Gods will forhim. There he receives a letter fromthe Brothers, ordering him under thesame Vow of Obedience that theyhave all taken to return and take upagain the leadership of the Brothers.

63 1714 Coronation in London of the firstHanoverian King, George I.Within a year, the First JacobiteRebellion attempt to placeJames (The Old Pretender, sonof James II) on the British throne.

64 1715 Death of King Louis XIV, the SunKing

Brother Barthelemy is electedSuperior-General

66 1717 Death of Abraham Darby whofirst used coke in the blastfurnace to smelt iron (at


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Coalbrookdale, Shropshire)

2223

7 April (Good Friday)

John dies at St. Yon, Rouen,saying : I adore God guidingme in all the events of my life.

There are 26 communities in

France, and 1 in Rome

67 1719 Publication of Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe.

Brother Barthelemy, SuperiorGeneral, dies. Brother Timothee iselected and will be Superior Generaluntil his death in 1751.

1720

24Legal recognition of the Brothers of

the Christian Schools by LettersPatent of Louis XV.

1724

25Bull of Approbation of Pope

Benedict XIII recognizes the Instittue.

1725

1726 Jonathan Swift publishesGullivers Travels

Start of the ministry of the Brothers inGreat Britian

1855

26Beatification of John Baptist De La

Salle by Pope Leo XIII

19 Feb 1888

27Cononisation of John Baptist De La

Salle by Pope Leo XIII

24 May 1900

28St. John Baptist De La Salle is

declared to be the Patron Saint ofChristian Teachers by Pope Pius XII

26 May 1950

29The 23 tonne statue of De La Salle

is transported through Berninispiazza to be mounted high in St.Peters Basilica. It is 4.65 meters in

height.

1904


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