[2][3][4] It was founded by Michel Collin, a French Catholic priest in Lille, who proclaimed himself Pope Clement XV, after claiming to have received a vision from God crowning him with a papal tiara.

[8] He founded a community called the Order of the Mother of God (a name later changed to "Apostles of Infinite Love"), in response to the 1846 request made by the Blessed Virgin Mary, as reported later by Mélanie Calvat, one of the seers of La Salette.

[10] In 1952, Canadian Jean-Gaston Tremblay, along with Gilles de la Croix and Leónard du Rosaire, founded near Saint-Jovite in Quebec, Canada a community under the name of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary with ecclesiastical approval from the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal Paul-Émile Léger.

"[1] Since the 1960s, the Order of Magnificat of the Mother of God has accepted male and female religious, who make vows of "poverty, chastity, and obedience" and live under the Rule for the Apostles of the Latter Times, which they hold to be given by Our Lady of La Salette in 1846.

[11] In Guadeloupe, the Apostles of Infinite Love established two convents, including one at Pointe-à-Pitre, which became a place of pilgrimage after a girl in 1977 claimed to see a Marian apparition from Our Lady of Tears that lamented apostasy in the Catholic Church.

[1] Since the 1970s, the Apostles of Infinite Love has established a presence in various parts of the globe, including Guadeloupe, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Italy, France, South Africa, and the United States.

[17] In 2011, the Apostles of Infinite Love once again attracted attention after a French Canadian Novice at the group's East Flatbush convent, Mary Turcotte, claimed that she had been raped by a Black man.