QUIZ BEE

• De La Salle is born in Reims, France.
• HOTEL DE LA CLOCHE: CHILDHOOD HOME


  April 30, 1651
• Young Jean-Baptiste made many visits to his maternal grandparents’ home in this countryside village
• BROUILLET: VISITING MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS


  Age: 5 – 10 (1657)
• De La Salle begins his formal schooling at the College des Bons Enfants. He enters at the third level.
• COLLEGE DES BONS ENFANTS: FORMAL SCHOOLING


  Age: 10 (October 10, 1661)
• De La Salle spent years in private tutoring.
• In a ceremony held in the Archbishop’s chapel, De La Salle receives the symbolic tonsure (cutting part of his hair) indicating his interest in, and direction towards, the priesthood.
• ARCHBISHOP’S CHAPEL: RECEIVES TONSURE


  Age: 10 (March 11, 1662)
• The De La Salle family purchases a house on the Rue St. Marguerite.
• The De La Salle family purchases a house on the Rue St. Marguerite. The family bought the house in May of 1664, but they may not have moved into until the following year.
• HOTEL DES POSTES: FAMILY MOVES


  Age: 13 (May 23, 1664)
• De La Salle becomes a Canon of the Rheims Cathedral – an advisor to the archbishop, attending daily liturgical services, and receiving significant benefices.
• RHEIMS CATHEDRAL: BECOMES A CANON


  Age: 15 (July 7, 1666)
• De La Salle enters the Seminary of Saint Sulpice in Paris and studies at the Sorbonne University 
• SAINT SULPICE: ENTERS SEMINARY

  Age: 19 (October 17, 1670)
• De La Salle’s mother, Nicolle Moet, dies at the age of 37 and is buried the same day.
• HOTEL DES POSTES: MOTHER DIES

  Age: 20 (July 19, 1671)
• De La Salle’s father, Louis de La Salle, dies in Reims at the age of 47 and is buried the following day.
• HOTELS DES POSTES: FATHER DIES

  Age: 21 (April 09, 1672)
• De La Salle suspends his studies in Paris and returns to Reims to take charge of his family, arriving home five days later.
• HOTELS DES POSTES: RETURN FROM PARIS

  Age: 20 (April 18, 1672)
• De La Salle  asks a fellow canon and priest at the Cathedral of Rheims, Nicolas Roland, to be his spiritual director.
• TAKES NICOLAS ROLAND AS SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR

  Age: 20 (June 1672)
• After death of parents, DLS returns to school, this time in Reims. He begins with a couple of courses, obtains credit for those he took at St. Sulpice, and gradually resumes his seminary studies.
• REIMS UNIVERSITY: RESUMES STUDIES

  Age: 21 (May/August 1673)
• De La Salle is ordained as a deacon in the chapel of the Archbishop of Reims by the bishop of Bethlehem, François de Batailler
• ARCHBISHOP’S PALACE CHAPEL: ORDAINED DEACON

  Age: 24 (March 21, 1676)
• De La Salle Obtains his Licentiate in Theology from the University of Reims
• REIMS UNIVERSITY: LICENTIATE IN THEOLOGY

  Age: 26 (January 26, 1678)
• De La Salle is ordained to the priesthood in the chapel of the Archbishop of Rheims by the archbishop, Monsignor Charles Maurice le Tellier
• REIMS CATHEDRAL: ORDAINED PRIEST

  Age: 26 (April 9, 1678)
• De La Salle celebrates his first Mass in the Lady Chapel of the cathedral (Notre Dame du Saint Lait).
• REIMS CATHEDRAL: FIRST MASS

  Age: 26 (April 10, 1678)
• Nicolas Roland dies, leaves De La Salle in charge of obtaining ‘Letters Patent’ for the Sisters of the Child Jesus, among other things.
• SISTERS OF THE CHILD JESUS: NICOLAS ROLAND DIES

  Age: 26 (April 27, 1678)
• De La Salle is chosen as an elector at the University of Reims, becoming a member of its governing structure.
• REIMS UNIVERSITY: ELECTED TO UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE

  Age: 27 (November 9, 1678)
• SISTERS OF THE CHILD JESUS: LETTERS FOR PATENT

  Age: 27 (February 1679)
• SISTERS OF THE CHILD JESUS: MEETS ADRIEN NYEL

  Age: 27 (March 15, 1679)