Nicholas Roland was born at Reims (France) December 8, 1642. He attended the Jesuit College in that city before going on to Paris to Study philosophy and theology. He was ordained as a priest 1667-68? (records lost during the Revolution). Upon his return to Reims in 1665, he was named a Canon of the Cathedral, as was John Baptist de La Salle the following year. When De La Salle returned to Reims from the seminary in Paris after the death of his parents, he took Roland, who was about ten years older than De La Salle, as his spiritual director. Roland encouraged De La Salle to continue his studies and to take minor orders in preparation for the priesthood.
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