(Photo from lasalle.org) Popularly known as the Father of Modern Education, St. John remains well-venerated in many parts of the world including the Philippines. A sacred relic of the French saint, a gift from the Christian Brothers’ Institute in Rome, Italy on the Lasallian centennial in 2011, is enshrined at the Chapel of the Most Blessed Sacrament, at the De La Salle University on Taft Avenue, Manila. The De La Salle Christian Brothers are members of a worldwide educational movement in about 80 countries with more than 800,000 students. St. John Baptist de la Salle was a French Catholic priest and a pioneer in founding training colleges for teachers, reform schools for delinquents, technical schools, and schools for modern languages, arts, and sciences. His work quickly spread throughout France, and after his death on April 7, 1719, continued to spread across the world.