Father Pierre Picot de Cloriviere. s.j. (a photograph) was born in Saint-Malo in France in 1735.

In 1756, he joined the Society of Jesus. He made his last Vows just before the Society of Jesus was dissolved.
In 1790 the French legislation assembly prohibited all forms of religious life. During this time on the 19th July, Fr. P. de Cloriviere received an inspiration to start a new form of religious life that would have no exterior mark and could live in the world in any situation.

Adelaide de Cice. First Superior of the Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary, (a photograph) was born in Rennes, France in 1749.

She was moved by the material needs of people, their mental pains and worked for the unfortunate. She was called "mother of poor" by the people of the place.
They did not wear religious clothes and went to meet the needs of the people in any of place and received the inspiration of a new form of religious life that was possible for serving people.
She became the first Superior of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary later.