vants, April, IG88; Haag, Za France Protestante ; Hoe- fer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxix, G97. (J. N. P.)
Larue, Charles de, a French Jesuit and celebrated preacher, was born at Paris in 1G43 ; joined the order in 1GS9, became soon after professor of rhetoric, and at once attracted the attention of Louis XIV by his talents as a preacher and poet. He was for a while sent as a missionarj^ among the Protestants of the Cevennes, but soon returned to Paris, where he was appointed professor of rhetoric in the college Louis-le-Grand. He was also chosen confessor of the dauphincss, and of the duke of Berri. He died at Paris May 27, 1725. Larue wrote Idgllia (Rouen, 1GG9, 12mo), reprinted under the title Carminuni Libri iv (Gth ed. Paris, 1754), which contains, among a number of profane pieces, a Greek ode in honor of the immaculate conception (1G70) : — P.Virgilii Ma- ronis Opera, interpi-etatione et notis, ad usum Ddphini (Paris, 1G75, 4to, often reprinted) : — Sermons (in Jligne, Collection des Orateurs Sacres) : these are celebrated as models of pathos, as well as for vehemence of style and grace of diction : — Panegyriqites des Saints, etc. (Paris, 1740,2 vols. 12mo) ; and a number of theatrical pieces, etc. See Mercure de France, June, 1725 ; Baillet, Juge- ments des Savants; Journal des Savants, 1695, 1706, 1712, 1738, and 1740; Diet, des Predicateurs ; Le hong, Bibl. Historique; Moreri, Dictionnaire Hist, is.; Bibl. des ecri- vains de la Comjiagnie de .Jesus, p. 658-665 ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxix, 700.
Lasae'a (Aao-a/a, derivation unknown), a place men- tioned only in Acts xxvii, 8, as a city lying near the Fair Havens, in the island of Crete. Other MSS. have Alassa ("AXaffrrn), and some (with the Vulgate) Tha- lussa {QaXaaaa), which latter Beza adopted (see Kui- iKi\,Comment. ad loc), and Cramer mentions coins of a Cretan town by this latter name (Ancient Greece, iii, 374) ; but neither of these readings is to be preferred. It is likely that during the stay at the adjoining port the passengers on Paul's ship visited Lasasa (Conybeare and Howson's Life and Epist. of St. Paul, ii, 320, n.). It is probably the same r.s the Lisia of the Peutinger Ta- bles, sixteen miles east of Gortyna (see Hock, A"/-e/ff, i, 412,439). In the month of January, 1856, a yachting party made inquiries at Fair Havens, and were told that the name Lasaja was stiU given to some ruins in the neighborhood. It lies about the middle of the southern coast of Crete, some five miles east of Fair Havens, and close to Cape Leonda. Mr. Brown thus describes the ruins: "Inside the cape, to the eastward, the beach is lined with masses of masonry. These were formed of small stones cemented together with mortar so lirmly that even where the sea had undermined them huge fragments lay on the sand. This sea-wall extended a quarter of a mile along the beach from one rocky face to another, and was evidently intended for the defence of the cit)'. Above we found the ruins of two temples. The steps which led up to one remain, though in a shattered state. Many shafts, and a few capitals of Gre- cian pillars, all of marble, lie scattered about, and a gully worn by a torrent lays bare the substructions down to the rock. To the east a conical rocky hill is girdled by a wall, and on a platform between this hill and the sea the pillars of another edifice lie level vi'ith the ground" (Smith's Voyage and Shipirreck of St. Paul, Apjicnd. i, p. 2G0, 3d edit., where a plan is given). Captain Spratt, R. N., had previously observed some remains which jirob- ably represent the harbor of LasKa (see p. 80, 82, 245), It ought to be noticed that in the Lescrizione ddV Isola di Caudia, a Venetian IVIS. of the 16th century, as jjub- lished by Mr. E. Falkener in the Museum of Classical Antiquities, Sept. 1852 (p. 287), a place called Lapsca, with a " temple in ruins," and '' other vestiges near the harbor," is mentioned as being close to Fair Havens.
La Salle, Jeax Baptist ve, a French priest, found- er of the Order of Jirethrcu (f the Christian Schools, was l)orn at Rlicims April 30, 1G51. In 1G70 he went to Paris to complete his education at the Seminary of St.
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Sulpice. He was made canon of Rhoims, and was or- dained priest in 1G71. Struck with tlie ignorance of the poorer classes with regard to religion, he resolved to es- tablish a congregation whose chief object shoidd be to teach and elevate them. In 1G79 he began teachinp- in two parishes of Kheims, but was subjected to many an- noyances from the secular teachers, and even censured by some of the clergy. He nevertheless continued his labors, gave all his means to the poor, and finally suc- ceeded. A house which he had bought at Rouen, Saint- Yon, became the head-quarters of his order, and when he died, April 7, 1719, the 13rethren of the Christian Schools were established at Paris, Rouen, Rheims, and other principal cities of France. Its institution was approved by Benedict XIII in 1725. The Brethren of the Chris- tian Schools take the three vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, but they are not perpetual. La Salle did not wish any priest to be ever received among them. Their dress consists of a black robe resembling a cas- sock, with a small collar or ^vlute bands, black stockings, and coarse shoes, a black cloak of the same material as the dress, with wide hanging sleeves, and a broad-brim- med black felt hat, looped up on three sides. Their order became widely disseminated, and they are now scattered nearly through the whole world. In 1854 they counted over 7000 members, employed in France, Algeria, the United States, Itah", etc. Pope Gregory XVI placed La Salle among the blessed, and he was canonized by Pius IX. La Salle wrote a number of tooks for the education of children, many of which are still in use ; among them we notice Les Devoirs du Chre- tien envers Dieu, et les nioijeiis de pouvoir Men s'en acquit- ter: — Les Regies de la Biensmnce et de la cicilite Chre- tienne: — Instructions et Piie res pour la Sainie Messe: — Comluite des Ecoles Chreliennes : — Les dome Vertus d'un bon Maitre. He is also considered the author of Me- (litciiiiins sur les Eoaiujiles de tous les THmanches et sur les principnles Fetes de VA nnee, of which a new edition was iiublished in 1858 (Versailles, 8vo). See abbe Car- ron. Vie de J.-B. de La Salle; (Jarreau, Vie de J.-Bapt. de La Salle ; L'A mi de FEnfance, ou Vie de J.-B. de La Salle ; Le veritable A mi de VEit/ance, ou A hrerje de la Vie cl des Vertus du venerable Serviteur de Dieu J.-B. de la Salle; abbe Tresvaux, Vie des Saints; Hoefer, Kour. Bioff. Oener. xxix, 724. (,I. N. P.)