The Poor Clares of Cleveland have the following entry in their Annals about Mother Maddalena’s attempt to found a monastery in Cleveland: Reverend Mother Mary Magdalen [Maddelena] Bentivoglio and Mother Mary Constance Bentivoglio, two Poor Clares from Rome, Italy who were not of the form of St. Colette, arrived in Cleveland with two postulants. They had come to the United States at the request of Mother Ignatius Hayes, a member of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis and had established themselves in New Orleans. Here they were visited by the Very Gregory Janknecht, O.FM., Minister Provincial of Holy Cross Province in Germany, and founder of the Sacred Heart Province in the United States, who was then in this country making Visitation of the Friars. It was at his bidding that they left New Orleans to come to Cleveland where their spiritual needs could be better attended to by the Francis Fathers. The Fathers had prepared a convent for them at 1116 Broadway.