At the age of 15, young John Baptist de La Salle was formally invested as a canon of the Cathedral of Rheims (France).

Bro. Jose Maria Valladolid, Lasallian Chronology: Documented Events in the Life of John Baptist de La Salle (Rome: Brothers of the Christian Schools, 1994). Published as Lasalliana #31 (Sept.-Dec. 1994), p. 25.