De La Salle High School - Delta Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Most Reverend Archbishop Ireland

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THE ATH AN ASIAN In fact, from all sides came demands for the Brothers to open new schools. By the year 1700. nineteen years previous to his death, the Founder of the Brothers saw his work flourishing in the cities of Paris. Marseilles. Grenoble. Rouen. Rheims. Mcnde. and Dijon, as well as in many other towns and villages throughout the kingdom of France. When we learn that these schools were everywhere well attended, that, for instance, the school in the parish of St. Sulpice in Paris had an enrollment of more than one thousand children, we may form some idea of the social and spiritual influence produced by them on the humbler classes during the age of Louis XIV. The zealous Founder saw his work grow from year to year until the day of his death. Good Friday. April 7. 1719. when the young Institute numbered 274 Brothers teaching 9.885 pupils in S7 schools. We must not imagine, however, that the career of St. John Baptist De La Salle was nothing but a succession of triumphs. His life, like that of his Divine Master, whom he so closely followed, was filled with sufferings and trials. Accused unjustly by those who should have espoused his cause, forsaken by those he had trusted most, persecuted by rival laymen and misguided ecclesiastics, obliged to travel on foot, long distances, with little food and wretched lodging, the holy man of God never lost faith in his cause or in that of Providence in which he had placed his trust. Faith was his guiding star, and the spirit of faith he wished to be the spirit of his Institute as the star of faith is its seal. Under this motto. “Signum Fidei. ’ thousands of young men have enlisted and served in the ranks of the sons of St. John Baptist De La Salle for the past two hundred years. On every continent millions of boys and young men have sat at the feet of these humble Brothers and. while hearing those principles that make for material success, have also heard those greater eternal principles: “that God created us to know. love, and serve Him”: “that the things that are temporal will soon pass away, and that virtue and grace are the true goods that alone can produce for us the happiness of heaven.” The Supreme Authority of the Church, in the person of Pope Benedict XIII. set the seal of her approval on the Institute of the Brothers when he solemnly approved it in 1725. two hundred years ago, and on May 15. 1900. his Holiness Pope Leo XIII canonized St. John Baptist De La Salle. In the decree of Canonization, he said: “Benediction, glory, and thanksgiving to Jesus Christ. God and Redeemer of the human race, who hath clothed His faithful servant. John Baptist De La Salle, with the splendor of his glory, and who. knowing our needs, has proposed him to us as a model, in order that we may better know the supereminent charity of Jesus Christ which surpasses all knowledge, and be filled unto the fulness of God.” i 3 h

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Most Reverend Archbishop Dowunc.