[2] She soon realized her dream and became a professed nun while devoting her time to the care of the ill and orphaned children while using her order's resources to expand her work.
[1] Real made her First Communion in 1852 which caused in her a sensation that blossomed into a clear call to the religious life which remained well into her adolescence.
She thought that she would never be able to achieve her dream so decided to enter a Carmelite convent in Valencia though her contracting cholera forced her to exit the novitiate and leave for home.
[2] Real relocated to Barcelona and had a profound experience in which she envisioned the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ where He showed her His pierced left side.
In March 1884 - with the diocesan approval of the Bishop of Cartágena-Murcia - she and three companions left Barcelona for Puebla de Soto and began to live together in a group devoted to the Carmelite charism near Alcantarilla.
The cognitional process commenced in Spain on 6 February 1982 and concluded on 7 May 1983 when all documentation was submitted to officials in Rome.
On 1 July 2000 she was proclaimed to be Venerable after Pope John Paul II recognized that the late religious had in fact lived a life of heroic virtue.