[1] Based in part on the spirituality of the Discalced Carmelite Mary of Saint Peter, its chief objective is reparation for blasphemy and not keeping the Lord's day.
Thérèse of Lisieux enrolled in the confraternity in April, 1885; as did her parents, Louis and Marie-Azélie Martin.
The following October, Pope Leo XIII approved the Scapular of the Holy Face and elevated the confraternity to an archconfraternity.
[2] The home of the Archconfraternity is the Centre Spirituel de la Sainte Face in Tours, run by the Dominican Fathers of the French Province.
[3] There is also a confraternity at the Monastery of the Infant Jesus of Prague & St. Joseph in Dallas, Texas.