 Coming under the direction of Abbé Chevrier of Lyon, with the help of Mgr de Ségur and François-Marie-Benjamin Richard de la Vergne, then Bishop of Belley, in 1873 she started organising pilgrimages to sanctuaries where Eucharistic miracles had taken place, and their success led to Eucharistic congresses.Her first pilgrimage was to Avignon on Easter Monday 1874, then to Douai in 1875.Another pilgrimage to Paris also happened in 1875, to a church associated with a Jewish Pogrom in 1290