ST. DE LA SALLE WENT ON

1681 – De La Salle gave hospitality to his teachers in his ancestral home.
His family and relatives disowned him.
YET HE WENT ON.

1683-84 –De La Salle gave away his wealth to feed the poor and identified
himself definitively with the culture of the poor.
For this, his family and hierarchical friends despised him.
YET HE WENT ON.

1690 – De La Salle was opposed and persecuted by the Writing Masters
and teachers of the Little Schools.
YET HE WENT ON.

1690 – De La Salle was saddened by the wave of defections amongst the Brothers;
resources became scarce; other Brothers died from overwork;
discouragement descended on the Congregation as a whole.
YET HE WENT ON.

1691 – De La Salle together with Nicolas Vuyart and Gabriel Drolin pronounced
the Heroic Vow to work together until death, even if they were
reduced to live on bread and water.
He was probably saddened by Nicholas’s later defection
YET HE WENT ON.

1704 - De La Salle was presented with an edict from the Writing Masters,
demanding the closure of all the Brothers’ Schools
YET HE WENT ON.

1705 – De La Salle was saddened to learn that his own brother Louis,
a Canon of Rheims Cathedral, became a Jansenist
and expressed opposition to the Pope.
YET HE WENT ON.

1709 – De La Salle was saddened by the closure of the Teacher Training College
of St. Denis because of lack of food and other resources.
YET HE WENT ON

1719 – De La Salle, on his deathbed, was deprived of his priestly faculties
for fabricated reasons, and this must have hurt him deeply.
YET HE WENT ON.

John Cleary f.s.c.