Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

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Jean-Baptiste de La Salle was a French Catholic priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, recognized as the patron saint of teachers.

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Statements (62)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic priest
Catholic saint
educational reformer
founder of religious institute
human
ageAtDeath 67
alsoKnownAs Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
surface form: John Baptist de La Salle

Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
surface form: Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
beatifiedBy Pope Leo XIII
birthDate 1651-04-30
birthPlace Kingdom of France
Reims
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of France
dateDeclaredPatronSaintOfTeachers 1950-05-15
dateOfBeatification 1888-02-19
dateOfCanonization 1900-05-24
dateOfDiaconate 1677
dateOfOrdination 1678-04-09
dateOfPriestlyOrdination 1678-04-09
dateOfSubdiaconate 1676
deathDate 1719-04-07
deathPlace Kingdom of France
Rouen
declaredPatronSaintOfTeachersBy Pope Pius XII
educatedAt Collège des Bons-Enfants de Reims
La Sorbonne
surface form: Sorbonne
era 17th century
18th century
familyName de La Salle
feastDay April 7
May 15
fieldOfWork education
religious formation
founded Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
givenName Jean Baptiste
surface form: Jean-Baptiste
hasPlaceOfVeneration Reims
Rouen
Shrine of Saint John Baptist de La Salle, Rome
influenced Catholic education worldwide
modern teacher training practices
memberOf Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
notableIdea community life for lay religious teachers
education as a Christian vocation
notableWork creation of boarding schools for young men of wealth
development of teacher training colleges
establishment of Sunday schools for working youth
founding of training centers for lay teachers
introduction of simultaneous instruction methods
organization of free schools for poor boys
promotion of teaching in the vernacular French language
occupation Catholic priest
educational theorist
school founder
teacher
patronage Christian educators
school principals
teachers
positionHeld canon of Reims Cathedral
primaryLanguage French
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church
sexOrGender male
veneratedIn Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Description of subject: Jean-Baptiste de La Salle was a French Catholic priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, recognized as the patron saint of teachers.

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Collège d’Harcourt educated Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Brothers of the Christian Schools foundedBy Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
this entity surface form: John Baptist de La Salle
Brothers of the Christian Schools founder Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
this entity surface form: Saint John Baptist de La Salle
Brothers of the Christian Schools namedAfter Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
this entity surface form: John Baptist de La Salle
Brothers of the Christian Schools patronSaint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
this entity surface form: John Baptist de La Salle
De La Salle College, Salford namedAfter Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
this entity surface form: Saint John Baptist de La Salle
La Salle University namedAfter Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
La Salle College namedAfter Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
this entity surface form: St. John Baptist de La Salle
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle alsoKnownAs Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
this entity surface form: John Baptist de La Salle
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle alsoKnownAs Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
this entity surface form: Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Colegio La Salle (Guayaquil) namedAfter Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
this entity surface form: Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle