The Bishop of Vic Pablo Jesús Corcuera told her the institute should be of a Carmelite inspiration; she made her vows to the bishop on 6 January 1826. The same bishop wrote the rule for the order on 6 February 1826 and on the morning of 26 February she and another eight women professed their vows while she founded the order at that moment. That morning the group attended Mass at a Capuchin church and then went to her estate to begin their new order. But she also collaborated with Anthony Mary Claret for the writing up of the rule. During the First Carlist War she had to flee from Spain because she had founded a hospital in the Carlist town of Berga that was threatened due to all of the fighting and so she went to Roussillon in France and was there from 1836 until 1842. Her congregation received the papal decree of praise from Pope Pius IX on 5 August 1857 while the order was aggregated to the mainstream Carmelites on 14 September 1860; official papal approval came on 20 July 1880 from Pope Leo XIII. In spite of serious challenges that the civil war and secular opposition posed the institute she founded soon spread into Catalonia. Thereafter communities were established throughout Spain and Hispanic America.