The congregation historically has had two primary goals: Preaching Missions and contemplative life, with an attempt to blend the two. In 1769, Clement XIV granted full rights to the Passionists as enjoyed by the other religious institutes, making them not an order but a congregation. The professed renewed their vows, and the new members pronounced their first vows. On June 11th 1741 they first affixed the emblem or "sign" of the Passion (Jesu XPI Passio) on their black tunics. Paul of the Cross and his companions – they now totalled six priests and two brothers – began a retreat.
They were soon joined by three companions, one of whom was a priest, and the observance of community life according to the rules began there and is continued there to the present day. They took up their abode in a small hermitage near the summit of the mount, to which was attached a chapel dedicated to Saint Anthony. Gallicano, in 1737 they left Rome with permission of the Pope and went to Mount Argentario, where they established the first house of the institute. Īfter serving for a time in the hospital of St. Paul and his brother, John Baptist Danei, were ordained by the pope on the same occasion (7 June). Paul of the Cross who was born in 1694 in Ovada, wrote the rules of the Congregation between 22 November 1720 & 1 January 1721, and in June 1725 Pope Benedict XIII granted Paul the permission to form his congregation.
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