Lay dominicain

The parish found itself without a priest from 1958 to 1960. The Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Countryside, then based 30 km away, in Island, offered their help as support for catechists. Élise will form a strong friendship with one of the nuns, Sister Solange, who was her age.

Her friendship will be providential and will be the beginning of the link between Elise and the Dominican Order. Élise says:

Élise will end up requesting to entry into the third order, and more specifically, into a third order adapted to the sick: La Fraternité de Notre-Dame du Rosaire. In this way she came to know Father Jourdain BOCHIN, Dominican Brother of the Dijon convent, director of the fraternity of the sick.

Élise made her vows of commitment during a pilgrimage of the fraternity to Lourdes in October 1962. Father Bochin kept Elise's pilgrim badge in the pilgrimage archives as the only copy. This badge was surprisingly found in August 2016 in Besançon.

Élise was very happy with her membership in the Fraternity, and she told Father Générat:

It is to Father Bochin that Elise will entrust the collection of her Poems and songs; he will make a private edition of it the month following Élise's death. He put in a very nice preface which is an important source for learning about Elise's life.