 On 6 July 1931 - with her mother going with her to the motherhouse - she requested to join the congregation but she could not pronounce her profession or join the order until she completed a nursing course as well as a radiological course that the order requested she do.The postulant then commenced her period of novitiate on 28 January 1936.She made her initial vows on 30 January 1937 while assuming the religious name of "Zdenka".