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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. John Baptist de la Salle |
 | | But young de la Salle insisted that he was called to serve the Church, and accordingly he received the tonsure 11 March, 1662, and wa solemnly installed as a canon of the metropolitan See of Reims, 7 January, 1667. |
 | | De la Salle was too prudent and too well inspired by God, not to give his institute a positive character in its twofold object: the Christian education of youth and the cultivation of that spirit of faith, piety, mortification, and obedience which should characterize its members. |
 | | It is true that de la Salle, in establishing his institute, had in mind principally the primary and elementary school, which was the real raison d'etre for the existence of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. |
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