[4] While in Rome Jakob Rem came to know of the Sodality of Our Lady, a Marian society that had been founded there a few years earlier.

[1] After completing his novitiate, in the autumn of 1568 Jakob Rem returned to Dillingen, where he studied philosophy.

[3] Jakob Rem became chancellor of the Jesuit Seminary at Ingolstadt in 1586, a position he would hold until his death.

[3] On 4 May 1595 Jakob Rem founded the Colloquium Marianum during the dedication of a new altar at the Jesuit College of Ingolstadt.

The image of the Virgin was placed above the altar[5] The Colloquium Marianum became an elite movement that included many of the leaders of the Counter Reformation.

[3] The episcopal information process for beatification was started again on 26 March 1934, granting Rem the title of Servant of God;[7] it was completed in 1949.

[5] The icon was given the name Mater ter admirabilis after the miraculous event, and became the focus for Marian devotion in the college.

In 1612 the nobleman Wolfgang Langenmantel (1568-1637) came to Ingolstadt to seek Rem's advice about his marriage, which was on the verge of breakdown.