[1] In 1866 she refused to entertain the notion of an arranged marriage and she instead decided to take a private vow to remain chaste while also realizing she had an inner calling to the religious life.

For a time she lived with her maternal aunt Eulalia de Vicuña who had founded a home for domestic servants and with her aunt helped to form a group of women in order to administer to working girls.

The formal introduction to the cause came under Pope Pius XI on 18 July 1928 and she was titled as a Servant of God.

Pope Pius XII approved that the late nun lived a life of heroic virtue and named her as Venerable on 21 March 1943.

Pius XII later beatified her on 19 February 1950 and issued a decree of resumption for the cause on 14 March 1952;[3] Pope Paul VI canonized her as a saint on 25 May 1975.