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Posted: Dec 02 2009 at 6:38am | IP Logged Quote allegiance_mom
Does anyone know for certain either way whether the explorer Rene-Robert de la Salle and St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle are related? They were contemporaries. The explorer was born in Rouen and the saint died there.

I'm curious because there is a lot of local history where we live related to the explorer, plus a church named for the saint. An entire neighborhood and expressway are named La Salle, and I'm not sure if it's after the explorer or saint.

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Posted: Dec 03 2009 at 2:21am | IP Logged Quote MaryM
That is a very interesting question. I'm now curious, too. I had done some research last year into the explorer Rene-Robert de la Salle to learn more about his Catholicity. I did find that he had been a Jesuit scholastic but left before he was ordained. He had a brother Jean who was a Sulpician priest and who had come to New France the year before the explorer.

I'm wondering about the name - "de la Salle" isn't the explorer's given sir name but rather one he took to indicate he was the "gentleman of la Salle" - the family manor. Can't tell for sure about St. John Baptiste. I would imagine that given the proximity of locations in France and the connection to being of "la Salle" they would very likely be related in some way though I imagine it would probably be distantly, since when reading most biographical info of either man you find no mention of the other. Considering they were contemporaries that would seem unusual if they were closely related.

I did find this article which claims that they were relatives (though I couldn't access the full article). Only connection I could find in my search.

I would assume because of the explorer's ties to are that those places are named for him, not the saint. I'm pretty sure that anything somewhat modern or government related named la Salle in this country would be named for the explorer. Something explicitly Catholic like a church or school is probably all that would be named after the saint. Something named in those early centuries of exploration that does bear a saint's name and carried over to current use, would all be earlier saints anyway.

Curious if anyone else knows anything regarding this...

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