During her time as superior in Tours founded also a community, the "Magdalens", for women who wanted to lead a contemplative life in the enclosure and would support, by their ministry of prayer, the different works of the apostolic congregation.

Pelletier was born on 31 July 1796 on Noirmoutier a small island off the northwest coast of France.

[3] Near the boarding school was a convent of the Order of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge, a religious congregation founded by John Eudes to provide care and protection for women and girls who were homeless and at risk of exploitation.

The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity provided shelter, food, vocational training and an opportunity for these girls and women to turn their lives around.

[4] As early as 1825, the 29-year-old Pelletier was elected by the convent to the superior, although she had not yet reached the necessary age required by the constitutions and needed a dispensation to exercise the office.

He gave the task to Pelletier, who traveled to Angers in 1829 and set up the convent in a former cotton factory on July 31, 1829.

Convents that developed for Angers would be part of the institute while those houses that did not attach themselves to the General Administration would remain refuges.

[4] For some time, Pelletier had to deal with the opposition of Bishop Angebault of Angers, who wished to exercise the authority of the superior general, although the congregation's constitutions did not provide for this.

According to Norma O'Shea, RGS, the bishop's opposition, coupled with the deaths of a number of sisters and longtime supporters, made Pelletier's last years very lonely.

[8] On 11 December 1897, Pope Leo XIII declared Mary Euphrasia Pelletier venerable.