On the night between the 5th and 6th of October 1818, Claudine left her old mother, to live in a humble house, with hardly any furniture, a worker, an orphan and a loom for weaving silk. Claudine was hardly aware that she had founded a Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary. Later she would remark that “It seemed to me that I had launched upon a foolish enterprise without any guarantee of success”
