"Pattern of educators from around the world"
is the founder of the Christian Brothers and was born in France in 1651, and died in Reims Rouen, the two cities made famous St. Joan of Arc. His life coincided almost exactly with the years of the famous King Louis XIV. For him, the essential, which was his obsession, was to obtain the salvation of the soul of the students and make them grow in faith. Juan Bautista had studied at the famous seminary of St. Sulpice in Paris. He was ordained priest and is charged a work for poor children who had founded the holy priest and an orphanage for poor girls, led by a brother named Jesus El Nino. There in that work was waiting for the Divine Providence the way to becoming the great work he had intended: to be the reformer of education. La Salle gave him a 180-degree turn to the old methods of education. Before each child was taught separately. Now La Salle's group meets to give classes (now that seems so natural, but at that time was a novelty). La Salle began to gather their teachers to instruct in the art to educate and to train earnestly in religious life. And the most enthusiastic founded the Community of Brothers of the Christian Schools today are about 15,000 more than a thousand schools throughout the world. And they remain a world authority on pedagogy, the art of educating youth. Being very rich family, he distributed all his possessions to the poor and devoted himself to live like a real poor.
Recent years when he resigned to become Superior General of her congregation, asking permission to top up to make more pocket money. His humility was so great that it was thought unfit to be the superior of the community. Never tired of recommending to his words and good examples to their religious and the Worry Friends each teacher must always be trying to learners grow in love for God and love of neighbor.
Let every teacher should strive with all his soul to try that kids keep their innocence if they have not lost or regain their friendship with God through conversion and immense horror of sin and all that could hurt the sanctity and all that is opposed to eternal salvation. He spent many hours in prayer and they insisted that their religious gets most successful in the work of an educator is to pray, a good example and treat everyone as Christ was recommended in the Gospel: "doing to others all the good others want do not make us. "San Juan Bautista de la Salle died on April 7, 1619 at age 68. It was declared a saint by Pope Leo XIII in 1900. Pope Pius XII named him patron of Educators the world.
Pray
Lord our God, you chose to San Juan Bautista de la Salle for the Christian education of youth, raised in your Church to be consecrated by educators the entire human and Christian formation of young people. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son.
Sources: Divine Illumination
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