THE GYPSIES

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Blankets, meals and medicines also distributed among the gypsies who arrived in cars and camped around the sanatorium. They were looking for the "good nun" and Maria Teresa always came down to serve them.

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THE DISTRICT OF TOLEDILLO

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"At the foot of his house was the poor neighborhood of Toledillo and by his father's shop daily people in need, gypsies and children in rags looking for something to eat, passed by. As they knew that Paquita was good and charitable, they went to her and asked for everything.

It is not strange, then, that they always saw her "accompanied by the poor and gypsy" and that, despite being so small, they would call her then "mother of the poor".

"He brought home all the poor children and gypsies of the town, full of lice. He put a large basin of water in the patio and bathed them; I took off the lice, I left them clean and took them back to their homes. He also cut their hair after being thoroughly cleaned and bathed. He did many works of charity. "

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EPIDEMIC OF VIRUELA

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There was once a smallpox epidemic in Quintanar ... The guards guarded the streets, not allowing people to come near, let alone the children. Paquita had a friend among the sick, and could not go without going to see her. At night, when everything was quiet, he left the house quietly, went to the hospital and spent hours attending to his friend.

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 THE PASTOR RAFAEL

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For some time a pastor named Rafael, who had no one to take care of him, was in the Sanatorium. Sister Teresa took care of him and looked for him a suit to wear on Sundays. When the first day did not appear in mass, he went to look for it and saw that he could not take a step of how big the jacket suit was. When she saw him she laughed without stopping, she put it on a little and went down to the Chapel, then she had her suit trimmed a bit.

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THE LEPROSY

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There was a leper from a nearby town who, wrapped in a blanket, sneaked around the sanitarium collecting what was left over from the meals. Maria Teresa noticed and when nobody saw her, she ran down the stairs and fed her. If someone, when she was on call, knocked on the door late at night, she would not go with fears or objections, would put him inside and give her dinner and even if it was forbidden, she would accommodate him in any corner of the house.