and salaries remain unpaid. We see poor workers laboring from the dawn of the day far into the night, hardly earning enough for their bread and that of their children". In the middle of the night on 31 May 1856 a great storm caused flooding. He rescued several victims despite the danger to his own life. On Christmas Eve in 1856 he meditated before the crib and it was there and then that he realized his true mission as a priest was to evangelize to the poor but also to tend to the poor on the streets while forming a religious congregation for all those who were poor. This experience was almost like a sudden "conversion". In Ars-sur-Formans - in January 1857 - he consulted with John-Baptiste-Marie Vianney on his mission and who encouraged his work. He asked to leave his parish to pursue this aim and a meeting with the layman Camille Rambaud in June 1857 hastened this. Sometimes parents sent him their delinquent children and others asked him to get their children out of prison and take them to live with him for a better life. In 1859 he became a professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. On 10 December 1860 he purchased a disused ballroom in order to establish a chapel and a shelter for poor children and those on the peripheries in order to provide them with a Christian education. In his lifetime he received around 2400 male adolescents. In 1866 he opened a clerical school - that grew into his male institute - for clerical aspirants. The first lot were ordained in Rome in 1876. The female branch of his order - the Sisters of Prado - opened not long after his first was established. Social unrest threatened Lyon and Paris in 1871 but the conflict in Lyon stalled as Chevrier celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi and paraded the Eucharist through the streets; the quarrelers dared not interrupt the celebration. Chevrier was also a writer and he wrote both the Disciple of Jesus Christ and God sends Revolutions. The latter was a critique of priests who pursued greed and their excessive attachment to material goods. He fell ill in the spring of 1874 which began his long period of illness until his death. He recovered and made a four-month visit to Rome to be with his future priests. But one left