Her parents supported her request and paid for her to join Syon Abbey, but Clement was set upon St Ursula's.

The nun who had come second in the ballot was ten years older than Clement but bishop of Louvain supported her election.

Between 1569 and 1606, 28 women escaping recusancy in Protestant England joined the house and this was considered to be due to having Clement in charge.

A group of six nuns, unhappy that their candidate, Mary Wiseman, had not been elected, decided to establish an English house.

She chose to record Clement's life and how she led St Ursula's convent in Leuven.