Saint Raphael, protector of the community

Mother Puig y Arbeloa, in her monograph on the convent of the teaching, refers to the secular devotion to the archangel, when she refers to the foundation of the house of Tudela and the trip of the foundresses from Barcelona in 1687. The nuns who came to Tudela and their prioress and foundress, Mother Eulalia Argila, wished to have a patron saint, for which they wrote "the names of some holy angels, and then casting lots on them, three consecutive times the name of St. Raphael the Archangel came out, although she would have wanted St. Michael to come out, because of the great devotion she had for him".

The protection of the archangel was uninterrupted and the conventual chronicles relate numerous favors, including one in the Francesada by which the high school and convent were freed from certain depredation. For these reasons, her feast was the largest of those celebrated in the Company of Mary of Tudela. For the mass, the church was decorated in such a way that "the eyes and attentions of the good taste" were ravished. On the eve and the day before, the music was provided by the music chapel of the collegiate church, also looking for "a speaker of merit, who could praise the saint and his protection of this house, to the satisfaction of the respectable and numerous audience".

Together with Berdusán's painting of the collateral altarpiece, the nuns commissioned outside the city, possibly in Zaragoza or Madrid, the eighteenth-century sculpture of the holy archangel that was kept throughout the year in the very chapel of the patron saint of the temple, as the most special and sacred place for such a precious treasure.