She is one of the most revered of the native people of the Canary Islands, together with Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur and José de Anchieta.

Three years later, a couple from mainland Spain, who had relocated to the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, where the husband was to practice medicine, decided that they wanted another child in addition to their first to care for.

[3] When De León was a youth, two local women, who had the reputation of leading simple lives, came to her foster mother with a letter supposedly from the girl's maternal aunt, Catalina Delgado.

De León gradually assisted in household duties and helped her uncle manage the estate.

Drawn to religious life, she declared her intention to enter a convent as a lay sister, a decision which her aunt and uncle accepted.

[3] Initially De León's guardians wanted her to enter the local convent of the Poor Clares as the servant of their daughter was a choir nun in that community.

[4] De León had originally wanted to belong to the Order of the Discalced Carmelites, as she was devoted to their foundress, St. Teresa of Jesus.

When the attacker would have stabbed Felipe with his dagger, the figure of De León appeared, interceding and preventing the pirate's death.

[4] De León also had a great friendship with the Franciscan friar and mystic John of Jesus, who was her spiritual director.

Every 15 February (the anniversary of her death), her body is placed on public display in a reliquary, which was donated by the corsair Amaro Pargo, who was present at the exhumation.

[4] A formal inquiry into De León's life for her beatification process was opened in the 19th century, but ceased.

Teresa of Ávila in continental Spain, Catherine of Siena in Italy and Rose of Lima in Peru and Latin America.