[3] She founded several houses of her order and even set one up in India after serving a brief exile with other Carmelites due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

[5] In 1923 she decided to found a convent in Getafe at the Cerro de los Ángeles near the monument erected in the geographical center of Spain.

[4] The Bishop of Madrid was enthusiastic about the idea and on 19 May 1924 she and three nuns of El Escorial settled for a brief period of time in a house at Getafe while awaiting the building of a convent.

[6] The religious persecution that started in 1931 saw her spend countless hours each night in reflection and both requested and obtained permission from Pope Pius XI for them to leave their group in order to give up their lives if the time came to defend the sacred image should it be violated.

On 1 May 1936 an armed band tried to attack the convent by scaling the walls and the Communist mayor warned her (she received him in the parlor) that she and the others should flee lest something terrible happen to them.

In March 1939 she returned to the Cerro de los Ángeles to restore the convent there and would go on to found houses at Toledo in 1960 and at Málaga in 1964.

on 1 October 1996 while this allowed for Pope John Paul II to confirm that she led a life of heroic virtue in a move that saw him name her as Venerable on 17 December 1996.

The process for a miracle needed for her beatification opened in Spain and lasted in the diocese of its origin from 15 February 1984 until its closure on 13 April 1984; the C.C.S.

John Paul II approved the healing to be a legitimate miracle on 18 December 1997 and beatified Mother Maravillas on 10 May 1998 in Saint Peter's Square.

John Paul II approved this miracle on 23 April 2002 and canonized Maravillas on his apostolic visit to Spain in Plaza de Colón in Madrid on 4 May 2003.