 She made brief vows on 8 June 1877 and then made her perpetual profession on 8 November 1888.The congregation received the papal decree of praise of Pope Leo XIII in 1886 at which point the congregation was officiated in the name of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and issued his papal approval in 1887.The order would grow with new institutes being formed in Zaragoza (1885) and Bilbao (1886) in Spain and with a house in Rome (1892) being established as well.