At that point, a local priest, Miguel Martínez y Sanz, a member of the Servite Third Order, proposed to her a project he had come to envision of a religious community of women caring for their sick, including visiting them in their homes.

Torres agreed to help in the project and on 15 August of that same year, having received the permission of the Bishop of Madrid, on the feast day of the Assumption of Mary, she and the six women who had also felt called to commit themselves to this service were given the religious habit of the new congregation.

[1] The sisters, who assist the sick in hospitals and other health centers, but especially in their own homes, became a congregation of pontifical right directly under the Vatican on September 18, 1867.

At that point, Martínez, the inspiration of the foundation, left to serve as a missionary in the Spanish colony of Fernando Pó, off the coast of Africa.

[3] The Sisters continued to grow, and Torres opened a new community in Valencia in 1868 and, in 1875, they expanded their service to Havana, Cuba, then still part of Spain.