The most remarkable event in her life was her renunciation of opulence and comfort to become a nun and dedicate herself to the education of girls, including Indigenous girls, with the founding of the first religious public school for women in Mexico.
Of her biographee, Alonso emphasizes that she wanted to replace charity with education, that poor girls should have access to schooling, she was ahead of her times during the Enlightenment.
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