- In 1891, Mother Elisa and Mother Margherita joined a small religious community formed by Monsignor Giovanni Battista Mander in Vidor, Italy to help with a boarding school for boys and a kindergarten. - On July 12, 1900, Mother Elisa, Mother Margherita, and two others took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, marking the founding of their own religious congregation. - In 1910, after 17 years of requests, their congregation was officially aggregated to the Order of the Servants of Mary, making them an autonomous congregation under that order.