 On September 8, 1933, at Sacré-Cœur in Montmartre, he and four companions took the habit of Father de Foucauld and went to live in the Saharan oasis of El Abiodh Sidi Cheik.This was the beginning of the Little Brothers of Jesus.In 1938, he met Magdeleine Hutin who would found the Little Sisters of Jesus.