[1] On 6 June 1853, her older brother, José, who was 13 years old, died accidentally when he fell from the tower while the bells were ringing during the octava of San Fernando celebration.

[1] As a nun at the Convent of Madre de Dios, she met the priest José Torres Padilla [es], felt understood by him, and chose him as her confessor and spiritual director.

[1] Due to the Revolution of 1868, on October 13 of that year, the convent was exclaustrated and the Dominicans were taken to the Monastery of San Clemente, run by Cistercian nuns.

[2][3][1][4] In this convent, the two communities, Cistercians and Dominicans, each led their own religious life, each one assuming their own expenses and helping in those common ones.

One of the people who watched over the corpse of Sister Bárbara was Saint Angela de la Cruz.

[1] On 11 February 1876, the Convent of Madre de Dios was returned to the Dominicans who, after some restoration work, moved there on 1 August 1877.

On 16 November 1877, the remains of Sister Bárbara were transferred to the church of the Convent of Madre de Dios.

[4] The Archbishop of Seville Zeferino González y Díaz Tuñón, a Dominican cardinal, opened the beatification process for Sister Bárbara on 18 January 1889.