Vénérable Br. Juan Fromental Cayroche

Brother  “Juanito” was born on June 27, 1895, in Chauvet Servieres, Lozere (France).  His desire to be a missionary brought him to the Lasallian missionary   centers of formation in Premia de Mar  (Spain) and Lembecq-lez Hal (Belgium).   In Premia de Mar he had the opportunity to meet Brother Miguel Febres  Cordero, the future Saint Miguel.  He  lived the first years of his apostolic life in Cuba, at the school in Sancti  Spiritus, Havana and Guines.  On  January 10, 1925, he arrived in Mexico City, the country which he considered  as his second home.  In the  twenty-seven years he spent there, he first taught in the primary and  commercial classes.  But his most  important creation is the founding of a new religious Congregation of Sisters  (Hermanas Guadalupanas De La Salle), to whom he gave the Lasallian Rules and the spirit of faith  and zeal, characteristic of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.  The new Congregation received diocesan  approval on September 12, 1962, and on April 10, 1976, papal approbation from  His Holiness Paul VI. Brother Jean died on December 5, 1978, at the age of  eighty-three and had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for over sixty  years.