Despite the limitations imposed on her due to her upper-class status, she worked to spread the word of Christianity.

She exercised the influence of her father and son to gain good will for many Jesuit missionaries among local officials.

She had a private income, from which she donated generously to finance living arrangements for missionaries; she also funded the building of close to forty churches and chapels, and facilitated publication of many religious works in the Chinese language.

The cloth and embroideries that they wove helped them make an equivalent of several thousand French crowns, which she also donated to support missionary work.

[5] She helped the Catholic Church in Sichuan search for surviving converts after the devastation wrought by Zhang Xianzhong.