- Father Bernardine of Portogruaro, the spiritual director of Mother Maddalena, wrote to her:
“I have been moved with all that you told me concerning the good spirit which these Sisters of the Sacred Heart have for you, and for all the prayers that they have been saying to obtain grace for you. Assure these good Mothers of my sincere gratitude, and that I beg the Sacred Heart of Jesus to bless them and to make them prosper, and all their houses and work in America. O how I love and esteem the spirit of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart! Now more than ever since I know them much better through the story of the life of Madame Barat, which I am reading. What a grand soul! What generosity! What a courageous soul! O if Maddalena and Constance only had one half of it!”… (See May 26th)