sentences:  Though very active, she found strength and joy in long hours before the Blessed Sacrament.She was invited several times to enter different Congregations but always refused, certain that God was not calling her to these.Finally in 1817, when she was 31 years old, she received a letter from Fr Pierre Colin, brother of Jean-Claude Colin, who had once been parish priest in Coutouvre, inviting her to Cerdon to collaborate in the Marist project.