[1] The devotion incorporated the wearing of the Red Scapular of the Passion promoted by the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul.
In 1847, Pope Pius IX had granted the Vincentians the faculty of blessing the scapular and investing the faithful with it.
In 1894, Pope Leo XIII authorized its extension beyond France and re-organized the various confraternities under the center in Paris.
In 1908, the Superior of the Vincentians in Paris appointed Judge to promote the Holy Agony devotion.
[5] The society has spread all over the world and is mainly based in churches and chapels of the Lazarists and the Daughters of Charity.