On this day, De La Salle wrote a letter to Brother Gabriel Drolin who was earlier synonymous with the “Heroic Vow.” The Founder wrote in part, “I have had many disappointments during this time. At present I am living in a house in a suburb of Rouen. It is called Saint Yon and we have our novitiate here.”
St. John Baptist de La Salle, Letter 32 (To Brother Gabriel Drolin), printed in The Letters of John Baptist de La Salle, trans. Bro. Colman Molloy; ed. Bro. Augustine Loes (Romeoville, IL: Lasallian Publications, 1988), pp. 114-115.
