The Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions is an international missionary congregation founded by Euphraise Barbier on 25th December 1861 in Lyon, France. Euphraise Barbier was a valiant woman who, from a tender age, dreamed big to serve God and humanity. A daughter of a labourer, Adele Euphraise Barbier, was born to Desire Barbier and Jeanne Adele Le Clere on 4th January 1829 in Caen, France. Fearing that the tiny baby would die, the parents baptized and christened her on the same day. But no one knew the plan of God that this small child was ordained for an exalted destiny. The parents brought her up in the traditional Catholic faith and Euphraise lived with them until the age of 19, sharing in the active and strenuous life of the class that she belonged to. The Christian faith and religious upbringing had a great bearing on her. She loved God and desired passionately to be a missionary to foreign countries. In 1848, Euphraise entered a new missionary institute known as the Sisters of Calvary, established at Cuves.