Franciscan Minims of the Perpetual Help of Mary

[2] During and after María Concepción's first Holy Communion (which her mother helped her daughter to make in secret because her father was a 33rd degree Mason and all the Catholic churches and schools in Mexico at that time were closed, and most priests, bishops and religious had to go into in hiding due to the violent slaughter of Catholics by government forces or "Federales" under the Plutarco Elías Calles government), the Eucharistic Jesus spoke to little María Concepción and taught her the faith and how to pray since she had received absolutely no religious education or catechesis at all during this time (1924-1928) of anti-Catholic, anti-Church religious persecution by the atheist Mexican president Plutarco Elías Calles.

At one point in her education, she was learning secretarial skills that include typing and short hand from a group of women who taught in a business school near her home.

The superior general of the Order of Atonement of the Franciscan Minims of the Perpetual Help of Mary is the Pope, so "the Lord" instructed the foundress of the order regarding the focus of the work of the Franciscan Minims for the Holy See, which included living and preaching the Gospel in word, work and prayer to end schism within the church and to catechize and convert schismatics, apostates, and those who had, in any way, separated themselves from the church and the Vicar of Christ.

With the express authorization of the Sacred Congregation of Religious, dated October 1963, the order was founded a second time in Chilapa, Guerrero, Mexico in January 1964.

Again, it received approval as a pious union in Mexico on September 1, 1964, after being placed under the protection of a Mexican Bishop, Fidel de Sta Maria Cortes Perez, whom the Pope introduced to María Concepción while she was in Rome.

In 1963, just prior to the end of her exclaustration María Concepción Zúñiga López wrote in a brief autobiography of her life about the founding of the Order of Atonement, which she handed to Pope Paul VI during her first meeting with him: That is why, one of the mysteries, the most easily comprehensible — if the expression fits for the human mind — is to teach souls the value of suffering, of their voluntary crucifixion in union with Him, Christ immolated.

For being then with Him, there would be no danger of vanity and everything would be for His greater glory.María Concepción of the Nativity and the Perpetual Help of Mary died on October 15, the Feast of Saint Teresa of Jesus, in 1979.