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The calendar lists events important to the Lasallian world such the feast days of Lasallian saints and the corresponding Eucharistic readings. It also includes the meditations Saint John Baptist de La Salle wrote for the feasts of various saints. The Church calendar has changed since the 1600's, therefore some of the saints which were important in De La Salle's day are no longer on the official calendar or have been moved to other days. The meditations are still a source of reflection.

Indivisa Manent

The name "La Salle" comes from St. John Baptist De La Salle, founder of the Christian Brothers. The coat of arms  represents over one thousand years of tradition of the De La Salle family, and over three hundred years of education conducted by Christian Brothers' schools throughout the world.

 

 The house of De La Salle was first established in Urgel, an area of Catalonia, Spain, where the form of the family name was "Salla." The head of the family, JohanSalla, Warrior in Chief of Atphonus the Chaste, King of Oviedo, expelled the Moors from Urgel and reestablished the Episcopal See in 818. The broken legs he sustained during combat as he fought side by side with his king are the origin of the broken chevrons on the De La Salle's coat of arms.

In the thirteenth century, the family migrated to the Basque province in the south of France, and though their name became French, they retained "Salla!" as their battle cry. The ancient motto of the family is "Que sien toustem ligato amasse," which in Gascon dialect means "Let us all be united!" or "Let us all stick together!" The Rheims branch of the family translated this motto into the Latin "Indivisa Manent," which is the present wording of the motto on the coat of arms.

The crown with nine orbs on the coat of arms represents the status of a count, but in 1899, a year before the canonization of St. John Baptist De La Salle, a descendant of the family, Count Louis-Felix De La Salle, was granted the title of duke by Pope Leo XIII. As a result the Lasallian crown became a dual crown.