Education
She never finished her studies due to the lack of economic resources in her family, developing an autodidact formation.
She never finished her studies due to the lack of economic resources in her family, developing an autodidact formation.
When she was ten years old, her family moved to Santa Ana city, where she started her elementary studies in María Luisa de Cristofine"s elementary school. She learned to sew and worked as a seamstress along with her future activities. She assured she had the capacity of predicting the future through messages she received from "mysterious voices".
This allowed her to gain some relevance among her relatives, making her gain fame and recognition despite the unlikely truth of her predictions.
This statement also provoked criticism and mockery from some social groups. Her predictions were published in Santa Ana"s newspapers, where she"s referred to as "la sibila santaneca".
In 1914, she predicted the fall of Germany"s Kaiser and the entry of the United States of America to war. From then on her name would take relevance because of her feminist approaches and the esoteric of her person.