 Together the Ratisbonne brothers established the Congregation of the Fathers of Our Lady of Sion in 1852.In 1855 Alphonse moved to the Holy Land, where, in 1858, he established the Convent of the "Ecce homo" on the site of a ruined church of that name on the famed Via Dolorosa for the Sisters of the congregation.On the grounds of the convent, Ratisbonne built an orphanage and vocational school which the Sisters ran.