He is also called the "Second Founder" due to restoring the dwindled congregation of the Sisters of the Good Saviour.

[1][2] Jamet was beatified in 1987 after Pope John Paul II approved a miracle attributed to his intercession.

Jamet refused to swear allegiance to the new government of the French Revolution in 1790 and was later arrested due to this dissidence.

Upon his release he set about the restoration of the Sisters of the Good Saviour which was in decline at that time and would celebrate mass in secret.

[3] On 21 March 1985 he was declared to be Venerable after Pope John Paul II acknowledged the fact that Jamet had lived a life of heroic virtue.