Signs of Faith - Winter 2000 - Brother Visitor's Letter

John Baptist de La Salle:
The Educator and Visionary

Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the declaration that John Baptist de La Salle is the Patron of All Teachers of Youth

People of Influence

De La Salle's Written Works

The Gardens, Vaugirard,
Map of Schools at De La Salle's Death

Examples of De La Salle's Writing

De La Salle's Written Works

For the Schools:

The Conduct of Christian Schools (in manuscript form until 1720)

Exercises of Piety for the Use of the Christian Schools (1696)

Instructions and Prayers for Holy Mass (1698)

Teaching French Syllables (1698)

How to Go to Confession (1698)

Prayers for Confession and Communion (ca. 1698)

The Rules of Christian Politeness and Civility (1702)

Spiritual Canticles for the Use of the Christian Schools (1703)

The Duties of a Christian (1703)

Christian Public Worship (Volume III of The Duties, 1703)

David's Psalter and the Office of Our Lady (1706)

For the Brothers' Community:

The Common Rule of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (1705 and 1718)

The Collection of Short Treatises for the Use of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
(1705, printed in 1711)

The Rule of the Brother Director of a House of the Institute

Meditations for All the Sundays of the Year and for the Principal Feasts of the Year

Meditations for the Time of the Retreat

Explanation of the Method of Interior Prayer