Mª Ignacia de Azlor in Tudela

There is documentary information about one of the altarpieces of the church, specifically that of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which informs us that it was made with the gifts of Sister Maria Ignacia Azlor, who made her novitiate in the house of Tudela, where she arrived on September 24, 1742 and remained there between 1742 and 1752, when she left for her homeland and founded the high school of Mexico, after having made her solemn profession.

This religious noblewoman arrived in Tudela when the church was just inaugurated and in plenary session of the Executive Council at the moment of its realization of its ornament. She paid for the altarpiece of the patron saint of Mexico, collaborated with 600 ducats for the site of the orchard and donated a rich French dress to make a terno that was worn for the first time on the day of her profession. Her gifts also reached the chapter of the collegiate church, as sample the donation of 800 reales for the gift of Saint Anne in 1748, "showing her gratitude for having assisted the chapter at her profession and the said treasurer has expressed that the said amount should be used for the gold cloth robe which, following the one that had been started......, should be used in the festivities of Our Patron Saint Anne".

In Mexico she founded the house of the order in the capital of the viceroyalty and is considered as the introducer of the methods of teaching for the Education of girls in those lands, making possible an authentic revolution in pedagogy in those lands.