One fateful day in 1546, Ignatius did not want to deal with Isabel and her complaints of followers or suggestions for improvement to the order. A letter with the pope's approval was presented to Isabel, who had to read it four times before she truly took it in. She departed Rome and joined a convent, where she lived the rest of her days knowing she had once been the first woman Jesuit. Thus, she and her two companions were booted out of the Jesuit order with Ignatius vowing never to take under his instruction the spiritual lives of pious women. The idea that women once provided for a male group trying to be on its own is not surprising.
Women always seem to provide when needed even if they have to storm French palaces just for bread.
The moral of the story is that at least one woman was a substantial benefactor to Ignatius' Jesuits. All the women of Loyola today can be their own campaigners for success without having to join the trendy arena. A woman can start her own group. A woman can make her own vows. Maybe one day, Isabel will have a statue for her effort to sustain the many demands of spirituality under Ignatius.