The significant popular success of the Notre-Dame-de-Victoire chapel, from its construction in the 1660s, prompted its founders, Abbé Jean Aubert and his financier Honoré Lambert, to expand the site. Between 1663 and 1671, they had a small monastery built to accommodate four monks as well as a building financed by the Sainte-Victoire brotherhood of Pertuis to accommodate the pilgrims. On the first floor, a housing reserved for Abbé Aubert was funded by the community of Vauvenargues. Faced with the ever-increasing influx of pilgrims, the old Sainte-Venture chapel, which had fallen into ruin, was rebuilt in 1664 to serve as an annex to the main chapel, and altars to celebrate mass as well as stones for confessions were added outdoors.