 They provided the newcomers hospitality until their own house could be occupied.After two weeks, the bishop persuaded the canonesses to accept hospitality in private homes so that they could be more available for visiting the sick in their own homes, while the postulants were given training in the consecrated life by the Ursulines.As they performed this service as the first visiting nurses in the region, they came to be called the angels of the city, partly due to their white religious habits.