 In 1825, her father brought her home from school to participate with the rest of the family in a mission given at Sablières.This mission was to be given by an energetic and zealous priest, Etienne Terme, who had recently founded a small group of teaching Sisters, called the Sisters of St. Regis.When Victoire revealed to him that she would like to enter religious life, he offered to take her to the novitiate of the Sisters of St. Regis.