Old Calendar: St. John Baptist de la Salle, confessor; St.
Dymphna, virgin and martyr (Hist) Isidore was a Spanish laborer
who worked most of his life as a ploughman for a nobleman who
lived near Madrid, Spain. Although working many hours a day, he
never failed to attend daily Mass, and spend time praying before
the Holy Eucharist. He married a maid-servant, Maria de la
Cabeza, who was also canonized a saint. They were always willing
to help their neighbors and worked with the poor in the city
slums. In 1947, he was proclaimed the Patron of the National
Rural Life Conference in the United States.According to the 1962
Missal of Bl. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman
Rite, today is the feast of St. John Baptist de la Salle. He was
inspired by God to give a Christian education to the poor, he
founded the Brothers of the Christan Schools which soon spread
throughout the world. In private life he treated himself with
extreme rigor. He died in 1719. His feast in the Ordinary Form
of the Roman Rite is ce