 In February 1874 she and her sister María Dolores travelled to the convent of Poor Clare nuns in their hometown in order to discern what their vocation was.The two sisters were clothed with the habit for the first time on 4 June 1874 and so commenced their novitiate and joined a group of 21 other novices.In 1875, the two entered a religious congregation - the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix - and it was there that she assumed her new religious name of "María of the Sacred Heart of Jesus".