The extraordinary confessor at the Evansville monastery for a number of years was Father Marianus Fiege, a Capuchin friar. He was the one who edited the Princess of Poverty in the year 1900, at the time of the Silver Jubilee of the coming to America of the Poor Clares. Father Marianus wrote a book on the Holy Spirit, and it gives us some idea of the type of preaching on the Holy Spirit that Mother Maddalena would have heard during Holy Mass or in conferences. Who inspired holy men and women with the idea of establishing those numerous Religious Orders, Congregations, and Societies, which now exist in the Church of God, both as an ornament to enhance her beauty and as bulwark to defend her against her enemies? Who aided these holy Founders to draw up the saintly rules and salutary constitutions, by which the lives of their followers were regulated and sanctified, and which in many instances have all the outward marks of a special divine inspiration? Who has raised so many Religious to the very height of perfection, and endowed them with extraordinary gifts, so that they have become renowned for holiness of life and the fame of miracles, and that “their memories are held in benediction from generation to generation?" “I will speak, and do thou answer.” Is not all this. once more, the work of the Divine Spirit, Who by these wonderful institutions proclaims Himself, in a visible and tangible manner, the Spirit of holiness and perfection! Religious soul! Can you be conscious of all you owe to the Holy Ghost, and not be moved to be devoted to Him in cl very special manner? Can you feel burning within you the fire of Divine love and be headless of Him Vi/ho is the very breath of that fire? Ah! then, let the Spirit of God reign entirely in your hearts, that he may set them yet more on fire. Fire is what you need. “I came to cast fire on earth and what will I but that it burn." Where there is fire, there is life, motion. and activity; there is true zeal and devotedness; and thence, too, will shoot forth into a cold, dismal and dreary world, flashes of light and rays of warmth, by which many a poor soul that “sitteth in darkness and the shadow of death" shall be enlightened and set on fire. Then "be you filled with the Holy Spirit" in a very special manner, so as to live, love, work and suffer for Him alone; and, being yourself filled with the Holy Spirit, make known His Love and mercy everywhere, so that all may come under the gracious empire of His Love and mercy, and that God may be ever more glorified. (pp. 61-61)