After a life of active ministry on behalf of the church, Venerable Ursula felt inspired to retire to the eremetical life.  She received a vision of Our Lady, who held the Christ Child.  Here is an excerpt from The Rose Scapular of the event:

 

       It was on the Feast of Candlemas, a few centuries ago, that Our

       Blessed Lady appeared to a pius maiden named Ursula Benincasa.

       Our Lady was clad in a robe of dazzling whiteness, over which she

       wore a mantel of heavenly blue.  A troop of beautiful virgins, clad

       in the same attire, surrounded their Virgin Queen, who bore her

       Divine Infant in her arms.  The Holy Mother of God smiled graciously

       upon the pius maiden, who was at the time bitterly bewailing her

       sins, and consoled her.

 

       "My daughter," said she, "dry up thy tears, thy sorrow shall now

       be changed into pure and heavenly joy.  Hearken to the words of

       my Divine Son, whom thou has chosen for thy Spouse."  The

       Infant Jesus now commanded Ursula to found a new order bearing

       the name of Theatine Nuns in honor of the Immaculate Conception.

       This order was to be composed of thirty virgins, who were to wear

       a habit similar to that in which the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared.

       The Divine Infant promised special graces to all those who would

       join this order.

 

       The pius maiden was rejoiced beyond measure at these happy

       tidings.  In her great charity, she wished that these gracious promises

       might be extended to all the faithful.  She, therefore, besought

       fervently the Mother of Mercy to extend them to all those who

       would wear a Blue Scapular, honor the Immaculate Conception,

       and fulfill the duties of their state in life.  Her prayer was granted,

       and she immediately beheld a great multitude of angels busily

       engaged in distributing the Blue Scapular among the faithful.

 

The nuns will also practice perpetual abstinence from meat (except when sick).  They will fast on the vigils of Marian feasts, and the fast will become stricter before the feasts of the Immaculate Conception and Corpus Christi.  The nuns will also observe the fasts mandated by the church.

 

Other fast days will include Friday (accompanied by five hours of eucharistic adoration); Saturday; and the last two days of the Mardi Gras Carnival.

 

However, the Romite Teatina Restoration nuns will not be so strictly cloistered so as to preclude any contact with family.  Familial visits will be held to once a year.  Papal enclosure will be observed.