19 February 1789 she fell into a state of ecstasy and saw - as she described - "Jesus seated on a throne of grace in the Blessed Sacrament, surrounded by virgins adoring Him". She also heard Christ tell her: "I have chosen you to establish the work of perpetual adorers who, day and night, will offer Me their humble adoration". It was around 1799 that she met the priest Giovanni Antonio Baldeschi would become her spiritual director. In response to her vision she established what would be the name of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and in their first general chapter on 20 April 1802 was appointed as its abbess. On 21 November 1803 Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia visited Sordini's congregation and had a private conversation with her for around two hours. Sordini drafted the Rule with the consent of her local bishop and spiritual director and set out for Rome on 31 May 1807. It was at that time that Pope Pius VII allowed them to establish their first house in Rome. On 8 July 1807 she moved into the Ss. Joachim and Anne convent near the Trevi Fountain. Cardinal Giulio Maria della Somaglia - on 2 February 1808 - was scheduled to go to the Capella Papale in the Quirinale Palace but an invisible force held him back despite his attempts to leave the room. Somaglia thought on this strange occurrence and realized his lack of signing Sordini's rule was the reason. He was able to leave the room once he signed it. The congregation - and Sordini also - was forced into exile in the region of Tuscany following Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of the Italian peninsula. In her exile she formed a new group but was allowed to return to Rome less than a decade later on 19 March 1814 after Napoleon's defeat and settled at Sant'Anna al Qurinale. The pope later returned to Rome on 24 May 1814 and granted his formal approval to the new institute on 13 February 1818. But papal approval of the Rule did not come until 22 July 1818 in the papal bull "In Supremo Militantis". Five months before this the pontiff had appointed Bishop Giuseppe Bartolomeo Menochio as their guide and superior. In his presence she and three other sisters made their solemn vows in her order on 12 May 1818. The death of Monochio on 25 March 1823