To confer with the bishop, who was in France, she undertook a third journey to Europe. After returning the next year, she resisted numerous attempts made in the next few years to merge her new order with the cloistered Ursulines, or otherwise to change its original character.
She traveled to Europe to meet with the bishop, who was residing in France. Upon returning the following year, she fiercely opposed any efforts to integrate her newly established order with the Ursuline nuns or modify its fundamental structure.