Blessed Nicolas Roland
![[Blessed Nicolas Roland]](saintn83.jpg "21kb jpg detail of a painting of Blessed Nicolas Roland, date unknown, artist unknown, Hotel de La Salle, Reims; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Memorial
- 27 April
- Profile
- Raised in a pious family.
Educated by Jesuits.
Canon of Rheims while still a seminarian.
Priest.
Noted preacher.
Assigned as parish priest in Rouen, France.
Returned to Rheims with the plan to start schools for poor girls; he took a run-down orphanage and turned it into a successful school for orphaned and abandoned girls.
Founder of the Soeurs de l’Enfant-Jésus (Sisters of the Infant Jesus) whose first members were teachers at his school; they received formal approval on 9 May 1678.
He and the Sisters expanded the work and founded more schools around the city.
Friend and mentor of Saint John Baptist la Salle who continued Nicolas' work by supervising the Sisters, and later founding schools for boys.
- Born
- 8 December 1642 in Rheims, Marne, France
- Died
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27 April 1678 in Rheims, Marne, France of natural causes
interred in the crypt of the Sisters of the Child Jesus in Rheims
- Venerated
- 21 December 1992 by Pope John Paul II
- Beatified
- 16 October 1994 by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized
- pending;
if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed Nicolas, contact:
Soeurs de l’Enfant Jésus
48 Rue du Barbâtre
51100 Reims, FRANCE
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Diocèse de Reims-Ardennes
L'Osservatore Romano
Lasallian Institutions
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
Wikipedia
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