On Easter Sunday, March 27, 1842, early in the morning, a group of seven people walked through Rome to the Catacombs of St. Sebastian, located on the outskirts of the city, to pray and during the Holy Mass take religious vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Four of them (Semenenko, Kajsiewicz, Hube, and Kaczanowski) decided to live according to a rule consisting of 33 points, which Father Piotr Semenenko completed writing on Holy Saturday. Father Piotr was also chosen as the first superior of the Congregation, which by Divine Providence took the name "Brothers of the Resurrection." They were sent from Paris to Rome for studies by Bogdan Jański, the founder of the new Community established in 1836. In 2017, it marks 175 years since the first Resurrectionists took their religious vows.