[1][3][2] The group was assisted by Jerome Lejeune, a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for discovering the chromosome abnormality that causes Down syndrome.

[1][3] Line and Véronique moved into a small apartment in a council house in the village of Buxeuil to begin their community.

[1][3] By 1990, another girl with Down syndrome joined them and they asked Archbishop Jean Honoré to recognize the group as a public association of the Christian faithful.

[1][3] With the intervention of Archbishop Armand Maillard, they obtained the definitive recognition of their statutes in 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI.

[3] Mass is held every Tuesday in their chapel, and the sisters engage in weaving, pottery, and tending to a garden of medicinal plants.