On this day in 1876 , the first postulant, Elizabeth Baily, began staying with Mother Mary Maddalena and Mother Mary Constance Bentivoglio in their temporary monastery at Philadelphia.  Elizabeth is considered the first Poor Clare in America, although she is English-born. Elizabeth  received the habit, but made her profession on her deathbed on January 21, 1878. Her name in the Order was Sister Mary Clare.