[5] Her sister Jeanne-Marie Antier would become the superior general of the Le Puy school of Christian instruction, and was a close friend of Mother Marie Rivier (died 1854), founder of the Congrégation de la Présentation de Bourg Saint-Andéol.

[4] Reine Antier attended the school of the Dames de l'Instruction au Puy, where her sister was a nun.

[5] As a novice in the Society she was given charge of a local girls' school, where her ability became clear.

[2] On 31 October 1846 Sister Augustine moved to Chauffailles, Saône-et-Loire, with five other nuns from the Société de l'Instruction.

[2] In the first years she and the other nuns opened a nursery for children who would be alone while their parents worked in the fields or wove cloth.

Mother Augustine soon saw the need to evangelise the whole family, and created gatherings for girls, women and men.

[5] The Abbé Lainent, the parish priest, obtained permission for her to run the local hospice and to establish a novitiate at Chauffailles.

In 1877, at the request of Mgr Bernard Petitjean, Mother Augustine sent the first contingent of nuns to Japan.