Limoges The socio-political context of the country changed rapidly. The habitual social tranquillity to which the nuns were accustomed was going to be followd by a period of social and political unrest. On April 14th. 1931, the second. Spanish Republic was declared. On account of the uncertainty that hung over the Company of Mary, the Mother Prioress decided, after studying the situation of the houses in France, to send two of the nuns to Limoges. One of these was Mother Cointa. The aim of the journey was twofold: on the one hand, to see how the nuns of an autonomous house lived, and on the other hand, to see how the French house had coped with the situation of the expulsion of the religious in 1904 by the French government. For Mother Cointa, her stay for a year's passed quickly. She tried to delay her return until after the election of a new Prioress at Talavera. Her efforts were of no avail. Her return coincided with the elections for Prioress in 1932. Talavera de la Reina On her return to Talavera, Mother Cointa was re-elected Prioress for the forth time. The socio-political circumstances of the time obliged her to remain in charge until 1940. In 1933 the general atmosphere of uncertainty compelled the friends of the community to watch over the house. From then on, difficulties would mark Mother Cointa's future. At the beginning of the struggle in 1936, threre were risings in Talavera and the religious of the Company of Mary had to abandon their Convent for a time. While they were away, a national order requested Mother Cointa to hand over the house as Headquarters. However, after mature deliberation and contrary to the prudence which had always characterised her, she decided to offer the Convent as a hospital for the wounded and to reserve part of it for the nuns. Thus charity, the typical virtue of Mother Cointa, was reflected, as on other occasions, in the care of the sick. However, the number of wounded increased so much that the religious had to give up the Convent. Some devoted themselves to working in the hospital, others opened a school for girls and the rest went to Badajoz to open a convent school for girls.