In 1910, the Portuguese Government decreed the expulsion of religious orders from the country. The Carmelites from Portugal arrive in Badajoz, with the relic, which they took to Ávila. The Portuguese sisters were scattered throughout Spain.
When the founding of Ronda was promoted, they reconstituted their community and claimed the relic.
Religious persecution unleashed a few years later, which intensified during the Civil War, the Republican militiamen harassed the Carmelite community to give them the incorrupt hand of the reformer of the Order of Carmel. This is what they did at the beginning of the fratricidal confrontation, in the summer of 1936.
Months later, the national troops found the relic and moved it to Burgos, where the General Headquarters of General Francisco Franco was installed. From then on, until his death in 1975, he kept the relic with him. It is said that on her nightstand, next to his bed.