The Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration are a Roman Catholic religious congregation founded at Quimper, Brittany, by Father (1787–1862). In early youth Langrez was an apprentice rope-maker, but he began his classical studies at sixteen, and was ordained on 19 December 1812. In December 1821, he conceived the first idea of the work he subsequently founded. Two poor homeless little girls crossed his path. He entrusted them to Marguerite Le Maître, a domestic servant. Other orphans were found and sheltered. In 1826, Marguerite's home contained an oratory and was provided with a dormitory holding thirty beds. Three years later she received her first two co-labourers, and on 21 November 1829, the first chapel of the institute was opened. In 1832, Mlle Olympe de Moelien, in whose family Margueri