Patron saints
Who Is the Patron Saint of Teachers?
Saint John Baptist de la Salle · Feast day April 7
The patron saint of teachers is Saint John Baptist de la Salle, whose feast day is April 7.
Who was Saint John Baptist de la Salle?
Saint John Baptist de la Salle was a wealthy French priest who gave away his fortune to found free schools for poor boys and to train teachers, pioneering many methods still used in education today.
Why the patron of teachers?
As the founder of modern Christian schooling, he is the patron of teachers and educators.
In the Word
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)
A note for all traditions: patron saints are honored in the Catholic and Orthodox churches as examples of faith and as friends who pray with us, never worshiped, for worship belongs to God alone. Many Protestant Christians honor the saints as examples without asking their intercession. Across all traditions, there is one Lord and one mediator between God and us, the man Christ Jesus, and every one of us, not only the saints, is called to holiness and to him.
All the saints point to Jesus, and so are you called
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