First she married a nobleman despite her desire to become a nun though she and her husband both desired the religious life; the couple bore nine children but she and her children fled after Napoleon invaded the nation to which her husband remained to fight as a volunteer and later died leaving her widowed but free to pursue her religious inclinations.

[1] Her childhood was a pious one and she fostered a special devotion to the Infant Jesus while being known for her obsessive cleanliness and she received her First Communion in 1792.

Her spiritual director, the Capuchin Esteban de Olot, suggested she establish an apostolic congregation devoted to education and to charitable works.

The confirmation of two miracles attributed to her intercession saw Pope Pius XII preside over her beatification on 19 May 1940, and the cause for her canonisation was opened on 14 May 1952.

[4] Pope John XXIII canonised Joaquina Vedruna de Mas on 12 April 1959 in Saint Peter's Basilica.