[1] The congregation was founded about 1630 by Michel de Saint-Sabine who reformed and united the hermits of various dioceses.
The bishop received the religious when they took the habit and made their profession, and the brothers in a diocese met together once a year.
Saint-Sabine gave the congregation a collection of statutes which regulated their mode of life.
Jean-Baptiste carried this reform into the Dioceses of Vienne, Lyons, Geneva, Le Puy, and Langres.
Jean-Baptiste went to the Diocese of Angers to found the hermitage of Gardelles and died there 24 December 1691.