Mother Maddalena endured several years of uncertainty as she tried to find a city in America where she could establish a Poor Clare monastery.  Father Kleber, her biographer, writes of her:
The Servant of God, indeed, whose love of cloistered solitude became all the more intense for having been tossed about now for a year and a half upon a sea of uncertainty, wistfully recalled the delightful calm of cloistered life; yet she was ready for still further sacrifices. “Many times, I recall my monastery and the lost peace; but that is only for a moment,  then thinking that now God wants from me  that sacrifice, I repent and I am willing to be  sacrificed still more. There are always little pains, but— ‘Thy will be done’”  (Letter to her sister, Matilda, January 14, 1877.)