At the end of the 16th century, the royalty and the clergy set out on the reconquest of Catholicism with the creation of new convents and the extension of existing ones. The hill of La Croix-Rousse was thus to return to the religious usage it had had back in antiquity. From 1584 and in the course of the following century, its slopes would see 30 religious communities, giving rise to the nickname which is now used of the Fourvière hill - "the hill which prays".