[1] Haze decided to respond to the lack of education in her homeland in the chaos resulting from the French Revolution and made that the focus of her religious apostolate; she served as her order's Superior General from its founding until her death.

Once the French forces occupied the Low Countries in 1794 her father decided to move himself and his relations to the German Empire for safe haven where he would die.

[1] Once peace had been established their return to Belgium was assured but their experiences had left Haze and her sister Ferdinande with a strong empathetic spirit to the sufferings of the neediest people.

[2] Their mother died in 1820 and the two sisters felt called to enter a religious order though the anti-monastic laws then in effect under the United Kingdom of the Netherlands prevented that from occurring.

In 1829 the local pastor – the Canon Cloes who was the Dean of the Collegiate Church of Saint Bartholomew – asked their help in educating the girls of the area who were suffering from the lack of schooling then widespread as a consequence of the occupation.

[2] Haze and her sister shared their vision of establishing a religious order on multiple occasions with Habets though the latter would be reluctant to discuss this to the point of avoiding them at times.