#omi200and THE FOUNDATION ROOMand January 25, 1816

Beginning of the Aix-en-Provence CommunityThe request for authorization sent to the Capitular Vicars General of Aix is dated January 25th 1816. It was signed by five Missionaries of Provenceand De Mazenod, Tempier, Icard, Mie and Deblieu. (The signature of Icard was later crossed off.)That day De Mazenod, Tempier, and perhaps Icard, took definitive possession of the rooms purchased in the ancient Carmel of Aix. Tempier had probably gone to live there a few days before to follow closely the work of renovation. He had arrived in Aix on December 27, 1815.