Mother Maddalena was a patriotic American and loved her adopted country. She was unusual, for her time, in insisting that only English be used in her monasteries. Francis Gabriel Powers, a biographer, said of her: “She had, in a supreme degree, that mental robustness and integrity honored by American men under the name of “character,”—men of other nationalities call it “moral strength.” Yet perhaps we should guard against thinking this altogether a matter of heredity and upbuilding; for, in Mother Bentivoglio’s case, there can be little question that it was a supernatural quality, and her force spiritual. God makes a clearer light when He wills, and infuses living energy. So, she looked with an extraordinarily clear gaze into all things, and was master of all of them.