On March 24, 1934, Joseph E. Ritter was installed as the Bishop of Indianapolis. It was Archbishop Ritter who invited the Poor Clares to Saint Louis, from the monastery of Evansville, Indiana. Mother Maddalena died at the Evansville monastery in 1905. We are blessed that our founding Sisters lived with nuns who knew Mother Maddalena.  Archbishop Ritter told the founding Sisters in Saint Louis:
I have been associated with the Poor Clares since my Ordination day in a very special manner, due to my association with the Bishop of Indianapolis, their Monastery being in Evansville, then in the Indianapolis diocese.   Aside from the Community being a source of inspiration to me and of help and prayer for my work as a priest, I have always been impressed with the fact that the Community was a constant source of joy and satisfaction to the Bishops of the Diocese -- all of them. The Community of Poor Clares gave edification to the whole community, to the whole Diocese and brought this satisfaction and joy to the Bishops of the Diocese.  That, I think, indicates the character, the type of the foundation we are making here. So, it has brought greet joy to me to welcome a foundation from the Evansville house, which has always been and still is a source of constant joy and happiness and consolation to me.
             - from a talk given at the Dedication of our St. Louis Monastery, August 12, 1959